Another point worth remembering is that unemployment has reached the center of the country, and can be seen today from Hadera to Gadera, an area that was less exposed to unemployment—the middle of the country, which contains 41 percent of Israel’s population, today contains 55 percent of the unemployed in Israel.
We made full use of all the elbow room we could build around us by taking a less restrictive approach to the Bank of Mauritius Act; we revisited little-known provisions of the Act and viewed the Bank’s mandate in a broader perspective – at the cost, I must say, of much friction with other interested parties and to the evident delight of the local press.