No act of God in Mauritius

When I worked briefly with him several years ago, his feet rarely touched the ground.  When they did, it was only for brief moments to advise the great and the good, and sometimes the not-so-good.  The intensity of life-style that such people have usually give rise to two dangerous effects - cardiac arrest and superficiality.

Earlier this year, the good professor paid a visit to Mauritius and wrote an op-ed  piece about what he or his editor called 'the Mauritius Miracle'.  In economics, there have been so many 'miracles'.  For at least two decades, Botswana was often referred to as a miracle economy.  However, in the last decade (2002-2010) Botswana's  growth rate, while still sound at 3.9 percent, is no longer miraculous.  It is below that of the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa average of 5.6 percent (source IMF).