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Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Seychelles. Similar to the Seychelles, Mauritius is a tourism nation. Still, the unemployment rate is 7.8%, times higher than that of the Seychelles.

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