Enterprise Survey 2009
Mauritius, 2008 - 2009
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Mauritius-2009--full
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2nd most serious obstacle - reason why (mum1bx)
Data file: Mauritius-2009--full data-
Overview
Valid:
398
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1007
End:
1086
Width:
80
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
2nd most serious obstacle
Reasons why
Reasons why
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access to finance | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Access to finance is a must | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Access to finance too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Access to land & building too expensive for developments | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Affect companies profitability | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| At times it's very difficult to have good and reliable workforce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Bribe | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Building and location are still expensive in textile sector | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Builidings too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Business at loss | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Can be harmful for our business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Competitors are everywhere | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Competitors in informal sector do not pay taxes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Competitors in the informal sector do not pay taxes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Competitors take over clients | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Complicated procedures | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Copyright | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Corruption big problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Corruption due to competitor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Corruption is everywhere | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cost of transport keep on increasing | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Decition for investment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Decrease Sales | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Decrease profit margin | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Difficult access | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Difficult to pass by the norms on the other hand in the informal sector do it an | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Disloyal Competition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Disloyal Competitors | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Disloyal competitors | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Disorder & theft means loss of Economic | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Do not apply | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Don't know | 64 |
16.1%
|
|
| Drugs are expensive for the public | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Electricity is a must | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Electricity too expensive for industries | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Everyone thinks corruption will make things to be settled faster | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Faces finance difficulty when the command of production nis low | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Finance remains a thing primodiale | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Frequent cuts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Geographical Position | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Governement acts for corruption/ competiition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Have to provide an adequate public 2 so that workers get easy access to freeport | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| High absence levelamong workers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| High cost of fuel | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| High tax on spare parts | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| High taxes on imports | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I have to sell at the same price as thos awho ar informal | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Informal small share of the market | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Insecurity raises problem for the smooth running of the business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Interest rate too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Interest rates too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| It is great loss for the company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| It's difficult because we have to find money for our expenses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of financing from the government | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of skilled employees | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lacks training | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Laws are not made in a way so that people are accountable to their company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Licenses and allowed has to reduce the price | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Loss of money because of corruption | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Loss of time and productivity | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Make us lose our contract | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Misfit formation obstructs cvonsiderably | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Money very high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Most facilities needed at custom | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Much Money spent on security services | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Much money spent for security purposes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Municipalities do not deliver licences and permits of works and most of them ar | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Must give commissions to have contracts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Necessary to offer bribes so as to retain existing working permits | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Need too much guarantees so as to get easy access to finance | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Need training in such sector | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Need transport as we have to provide assistance to clients | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No comment | 42 |
10.6%
|
|
| No problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No reason | 23 |
5.8%
|
|
| No reasons specified | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Noise pollution, I would advise a PME village in order to avoid neighbourhood di | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| None | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not applicable | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not easy to get loan from bank | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not easy to have a loan with bank | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not professionally interlectuel | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not satisfactory with the dismissal of employees | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not the same treatment applied to all by the customs officers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Our business will be at loss | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Pay for contracts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Practice of competitors decrease sales | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Problems arising from theft, crime are serious | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Re training in the enterprise is needed for the labour force | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Rent is too high and exagerate | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Rigid | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Rising price of fuel | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Sales tax high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Security | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Should have more qualified workers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Slow at times | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Slow procedures | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Take too much time | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Tariff for electricity too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Tax imposed by the Mauritius Revenue Authority is arbitrary | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Tax rate on diesel , electricity an gas increased considerably | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Taxations on second-hand cars are not quite fair | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The abstract sector offers of the lower prices | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The commercial restrictions in Europe and USA | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The enterprise will not be productive if the employees were untrained | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The financing is of primary important for the health of the company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The transport is vital for employees and for delivery | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Theft & Crime harmful for company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Theft is a major concern | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Thefts problems | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| They are very strict and unpredictable | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| This slow down the activity of the company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Time and money consuming | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Time consuming | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| To near to residences | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| To start the business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too many references of contracts , consultants seek official payments | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too much political interference in the business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too much procedures to recruit expatriates | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too much time spent on training of employees | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too much time spent on working permits | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Traffic Congestion | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Transparency | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Transport congestion | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Transport is a major problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Transport of workers raises big problem and congestion too | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Transport very important | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Unfair competition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Unfair practice in the informal sector | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Unpredictable laws | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Unreasonable claims are being made | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Untrained workers in screen fabric in Mauritius | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Waste of time | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Water is very imprtant | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| We are certified ISO, we must have a qualified workforce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| We have too much cost to practice their price and too many register | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| When changes occur in the government they help those having same political backg | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Without electricity business will not be able to function | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Workers Transport | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Workers not trained cause problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Youngsters do not want to do a blue color job | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| access for land is too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| airplane tarriffs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cadre still too rigid | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cause problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| competition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| complicity of employees and employees corrupted | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| constraints to have a big loan | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| corruption | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| corruption create a big gap | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| crime and theft could affect the abroad customers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| delay in work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| difficulties in attaining | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| dificult to compete | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't know | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| every it changes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| expand the credit access | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| expense more on security | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| formation of worker | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| harmfull for our bussiness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| high competion | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| high interest | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| important to the good running of the business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| informal sector have 40 % of the market share | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it does not favour productivity and self-con | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it is difficult to obtain finance | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it retards the work and once formed there will be effective work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it takes time to train the workers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it's even more expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of competition bill | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of education | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of qualify person | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lateness to give permit | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| manpower not qualify cause problem in the hotel industry | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| more regularity | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| need trained labour | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no answer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no comment | 20 |
5%
|
|
| no comments | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| no reason | 30 |
7.5%
|
|
| no reasons | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| none | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not applicable | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor quality of coaching | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| practices of competitors,they do not pay taxes and lower their prices | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| problem to have warranty | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| purchase | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| re-examine the laws | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| slow at times | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| targetting new market | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| tax | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| taxes are high on imports. This has a considerable factor on our profit marigin | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| taxes should be lower | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| that does not protect the local producers compared to the duty free island | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| that would prevent us from leaving clean contracts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the access of land is too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the competitors are increasing in that area and it's not easy for the markating | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the competitors buy the shares of the company in the market | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the workers absent handicap work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| theft on the shelves | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| they do anything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| they don't have to pay for the cost of production thus they sell at low price | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| this causes many problem to the enterprise | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too expensive | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| too high | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| too high taxes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too many competitors | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too much competitions in price | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| trade regulations in other countries prohibit us to have access to potential mar | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| two land-to expand | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we can't work when there is surprise power cut | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| when he needs some permits ,there is corruption | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| without electricity the business cannot operate | 1 |
0.3%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.