{"id":1690,"date":"2005-08-23T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T02:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2005-08-27T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T01:00:18","slug":"spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;for god&#8217;s sake, please stop the aid!&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/service.spiegel.de\/cache\/international\/spiegel\/0,1518,363663,00.html\"><i>Spiegel<\/i> Interview with African Economics Expert<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn&#8217;t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/whatsNew\/\">FFF<\/a> in the daily for July 18.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel Interview with African Economics Expert If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn&#8217;t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}