Insights
Research, analysis and practical insights from the Development and Resilience Research Monitor (DRRM) on development and resilience in Seychelles. Preparedness articles are informational, not official alerts or a substitute for professional advice.
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If Corruption Disappeared, Which Countries Would Still Be Poorest?
Updated using 2025 PPP-per-person data and the World Bank’s 2026 governance-indicator release. Prepared for Development and Resilience Research Monitor (DRRM). Seychelles is the central lens for this illustrative governance-catch-up scenario: it starts 61st and is 67th in the central scenario, a relative drop of 6 places among the 189 ranked countries. Mauritius moves from 67th…
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Early Warnings for All in Seychelles: a warning must lead to action
EW4All is an end-to-end system: risk knowledge, monitoring and forecasting, communication, and preparedness must connect so a warning can become timely action.
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Public investment is only resilient if government can maintain it
Seychelles’ capital-execution gap is a delivery signal, not proof that projects are useless. A resilient investment test must connect readiness, lifecycle cost, maintenance funding, climate screening and the service delivered after handover.
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When landfill space becomes a public cost: making Seychelles’ waste system measurable
Providence’s capacity pressure makes measurement, diversion and whole-system cost central to Seychelles’ waste policy. Current evidence supports targeted incentives such as PET deposits, but not a single recycling-rate story for all waste.
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Primary healthcare and prevention as social and economic policy
Seychelles has substantial primary-care activity and strong coverage for many childhood vaccines, but adolescent immunisation, screening follow-up and outcome measurement remain important tests of prevention.
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Electricity affordability, renewables and energy security
Seychelles can cut imported-fuel exposure, but renewable expansion must be judged by bills, reliability, storage, grid costs and who ultimately pays.
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Public transport, commute costs and access to opportunity
Transport prices and public support for SPTC are current signals, but neither one measures what households pay for necessary trips or whether buses are reliable.
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Childcare, care responsibilities and the ability to earn
Seychelles has expanded childcare assistance and registered provision. The evidence still cannot show whether support matches families’ hours or changes parents’ work and incomes.
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Youth unemployment is a warning signal, not a diagnosis of skills mismatch
Seychelles’ youth unemployment rose to 14.1% in Q2 2026, but that rate alone cannot diagnose a skills mismatch. The policy test is whether education, recognised qualifications, career guidance and employers create faster routes into stable work.
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Food security in Seychelles: reduce exposure without assuming local production is always cheaper
Seychelles needs a selective food-security strategy: diversify imports, improve storage and regional links, and target local production where it adds resilience, nutrition or livelihoods—without mistaking import value for food consumption.
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Water Security in Seychelles: Reliability and Whole-Life Costs Beyond New Capacity
Seychelles has expanded storage and desalination, but production capacity alone cannot show whether water is reliable or affordable over the life of the system.
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Housing Access in Seychelles: Why Serviced Land and Affordability Matter More Than Unit Counts
Seychelles’ housing pipeline is growing, but waiting lists, infrastructure costs, finance and climate exposure show why plot and unit counts alone cannot measure access.