{"id":12870,"date":"2015-08-05T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2015-08-05T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:08:26","slug":"why-bangladesh-is-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-bangladesh-is-saving-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bangladesh Is Saving The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080515_1202_WhyBanglade1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which country does the most to save the world? There is a case to be made for Bangladesh writes Laura Secorun Palet who explained why the country contributes the most troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bangladesh notes that it has topped the list of contributor nations to peacekeeping missions for 26 years due to its interest in seeing peace around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The country may also want to keep the military &#8211; which is prone to orchestrating coups &#8211; far from the country where they pose less of a threat.<\/li>\n<li>There is also the hope that these missions will spread democratic ideals among the troops.<\/li>\n<li>It is a source of revenue for the government. Bangladeshi troops have a starting salary of $193, while the UN pays $1,028 for their services. The government keeps the difference.<\/li>\n<li>This is estimated to have contributed $1.28 billion to state coffers between 2001 and 2010.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear if Bangladesh can keep it up though. The UN increasingly wants soldiers trained in using sophisticated equipment \u2013 something that Bangladeshi troops aren&#8217;t the best at.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read some of the ethical questions this arrangement raises, other countries that contribute personnel to missions, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/why-1-small-nation-plays-080000716.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/why-1-small-nation-plays-080000716.html\">Ozy\/Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which country does the most to save the world? There is a case to be made for Bangladesh writes Laura Secorun Palet who explained why the country contributes the most troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations: Bangladesh notes that it has topped the list of contributor nations to peacekeeping missions for 26 years due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080515_1202_WhyBanglade1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}