Add to ORKGThe small island countries are subject to specific constraints defined by the physical conditions, the few natural resources and the demographic situations. They all have also belonged to a colonial power and have been marks by the system of planting. What remains of the colonial presence and its system of organization varies a lot from an island to the other and the links with the former power, assets or handicaps, have never been totally broken and are often still very strong. The island of Reunion, Department of overseas (D.O.M.) located in the south-west of the Indian Ocean, presented of all French departments the unemployment rate the highest. Paradoxically, the Republic of Mauritius any close, sovereign since 1968, has managed to abso...