| Table 27: Net International Reserves | ||||||
| Bank of | Commercial | Others1 | Net | Import | ||
| Mauritius | Banks Net | International | Coverage | |||
| Foreign | Foreign | Reserves | (No. of | |||
| Assets | Assets | weeks)2 | ||||
| (Rs million) | ||||||
| Mar-00 | 18,214 | 6,537 | 500 | 25,251 | 24.0 | |
| Apr-00 | 17,728 | 6,226 | 491 | 24,445 | 23.2 | |
| May-00 | 17,222 | 6,499 | 495 | 24,216 | 23.0 | |
| Jun-00 | 17,455 | 7,254 | 505 | 25,214 | 24.0 | |
| Jul-00 | 17,067 | 6,554 | 498 | 24,119 | 22.9 | |
| Aug-00 | 16,926 | 5,964 | 499 | 23,388 | 22.2 | |
| Sep-00 | 16,895 | 6,428 | 499 | 23,822 | 22.6 | |
| Oct-00 | 16,987 | 6,693 | 504 | 24,183 | 23.0 | |
| Nov-00 | 24,395 | 7,328 | 517 | 32,240 | 30.6 | |
| Dec-00 | 24,840 | 8,188 | 526 | 33,554 | 31.9 | |
| Jan-01 | 21,658 | 7,418 | 525 | 29,601 | 28.1 | |
| Feb-01 | 21,259 | 8,446 | 573 | 30,278 | 28.8 | |
| Mar-01 | 21,447 | 8,676 | 518 | 30,641 | 29.1 | |
| 1 Includes Foreign Assets of the Government and the country's Reserve Position in the IMF. | ||||||
| 2 Based on the value of the import bill for calendar year 2000 | ||||||