{"id":298251,"date":"2017-04-07T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9365b8344b8efaf3aca973b7cd62b212"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:54:16","slug":"researcher-examines-how-a-countrys-natural-resources-affect-its-politics-and-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=298251","title":{"rendered":"Researcher examines how a country&#8217;s natural resources affect its politics and policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say country X is sitting on an abundance of oil reserves. If its institutions are strong and stable\u2014think Norway\u2014then society will benefit. If, on the other hand, its institutions are precarious\u2014think Nigeria\u2014then this resource will lead to negative outcomes, such as weaker democracy, less economic growth, and more corruption. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say country X is sitting on an abundance of oil reserves. If its institutions are strong and stable&mdash;think Norway&mdash;then society will benefit. If, on the other hand, its institutions are precarious&mdash;think Nigeria&mdash;then this resource will lead to negative outcomes, such as weaker democracy, less economic growth, and more corruption. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298252,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298251\/revisions\/298252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}