Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Mauritius’s total domestic credit rose 1.1 percent to 319.3 billion rupees in August from a month earlier, the central bank said.

Credit to the private sector increased 1 percent to 270.9 billion rupees compared with July, the Port Louis-based Bank of Mauritius said in a statement on its website today.

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