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Leaving the grey economy

By Dhiconomist
Informal arrangements have long been the norm for most things in the Maldives. From our date of independence, set to coincide with President Nasir’s visit to his dentist in Colombo to the hustle of everyday business in the modern-day Male’, a certain casualness permeates Maldivian life. Granted, we’ve polished up significantly in recent decades in […]
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Maldives, black swans and the unknown

By Dhiconomist
It hit us one morning and within hours left 83 dead, scores homeless and a crippled economy in its wake. Though we’ve made a full recovery since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, there is one lesson we have perhaps yet to learn. That is what risk professionals call the effect of the “black swan” […]
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Social Housing at current costs, a mirage?

By Dhiconomist
There is perhaps no other issue that is at the forefront of our political and economic discourse than that of housing. A problem that we as a country have severely failed to address while it was clear for decades Male’ city was seeing an unprecedented rise in population. Now every political party has a grand […]

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