...Pratima Sambajee; Mehdi Zulficar Azad Dhomun Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the role of government in the development of SMEs in the Maldives and Mauritius. Using tourism SMEs, it seeks to identify, analyse and compare strategies deployed by SMEs operating...

... (a well‐trodden one perhaps?). I look forward to reading a subsequent text which expands on where we are going, not where we have come from. There is also a flaw in Gray’s argument. He seems to assume that government had (and was able to act on) some sort of grand plan based on a consistent...