{"id":10575,"date":"2014-02-21T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2014-02-21T00:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:14:48","slug":"tuk-tuk-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/tuk-tuk-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuk Tuk Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/022114_0512_TukTukBucks1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kind folks at The Economist took a look at the economics of Tuk Tuks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The popular three wheeled vehicles are a common sight in developing countries.<\/li>\n<li>India is the market leader, producing 530,000 a year for its own use and 300,000 for export.<\/li>\n<li>Cities often try to restrain their use. In Mumbai they&#8217;re banned from the central business district to keep the streets clear. Egypt is also imposing restrictions on them.<\/li>\n<li>However they seem to be a hit with the wealthy. High end hotels are increasingly purchasing them to transport their guests.<\/li>\n<li>One company is taking advantage of this demand by designing a tuk-tuk stretch limo that can hold six people.<\/li>\n<li>Another is trying to improve the vehicle&#8217;s image by releasing a solar powered version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how India became the market leader, why Egypt is placing limits on Tuk-Tuk and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21596993-motorised-rickshaw-despite-official-disapproval-becoming-ubiquitous-tuk-tuking\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21596993-motorised-rickshaw-despite-official-disapproval-becoming-ubiquitous-tuk-tuking\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kind folks at The Economist took a look at the economics of Tuk Tuks: The popular three wheeled vehicles are a common sight in developing countries. India is the market leader, producing 530,000 a year for its own use and 300,000 for export. Cities often try to restrain their use. In Mumbai they&#8217;re banned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/022114_0512_TukTukBucks1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10578,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions\/10578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}