{"id":135,"date":"2002-06-01T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2002-06-01T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-03-19T21:19:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T20:19:57","slug":"remarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remarkable 1<\/strong>: remittances of immigrants from third world  countries form a substantial part of the GDP for most of those  countries. In some cases this money flow is even the biggest, or almost  the biggest part of the GDP!  see <a title=\"ILO publication\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilo.org\/public\/english\/employment\/ent\/papers\/wpap21.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ILO site<\/a>.  One recommendation to labor-exporting countries is to introduce  micro-finance intermediaries, because savings\/remittances of their  expats are not always invested well. Expats are not always also good  enterpreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remarkable 2<\/strong>: Moving all trade barriers would be benefiting  for most African countries, with the exception of eight. For those, more  competition would lead to higher import prices because they cannot  produce enough added value. See <a title=\"Article on Multilateral trade liberalisation and developing cuntries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lei.wur.nl\/NL\/publicaties+en+producten\/LEIpublicaties\/default.htm?id=230\" target=\"_blank\">LEI (Wageningen Univ.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable 1: remittances of immigrants from third world countries form a substantial part of the GDP for most of those countries. In some cases this money flow is even the biggest, or almost the biggest part of the GDP! see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}