In Mauritius we have a very extensive Welfare State, which we have preserved in the face of sustained attacks from the Bretton Woods institutions at different points in time when they have tried to get the public sector to back down on provision of universal healthcare or to restrict itself to primary health care only and to give up other parts of the health care system.
They have also tried to get us to give up on our free education system, on universal old-age pension and all this because it was not in keeping with one essential tenet of the Washington Consensus: Moins d’Etat, Mieux d’Etat. We have maintained all these social support measures, which are lacking right now in the West.