270 new businesses in 3 months.

Despite that peculiar pessimism that certain folk seem to roll in, there are people out there who are actually making new business. The Tribune wrote, ?According to GUIDE, 270 new businesses were created during the first three months of the year. March leads the rush with 109 new businesses most of which are the work of Malagasy nationals setting themselves up in economic support fields. 79 in the month of January and 82 in February and 109 in March, these are the numbers of new enterprises set up in the first part of the year. Most of them are Malagasy. In the month of January 44 of the 79 new businesses were set up by Malagasy citizens. 55 of the 82 new businesses in February are Malagasy and 66 of the 109 in March. This translates into more than 71%. French nationals have the second place 21% closely followed by the Chinese with 12.2% and the Mauritanians with 7.4% There are other nationalities too but with very small numbers. Among others there are Spanish, Italian, Guinean, Russian, Indian and even Burkin.?