{"id":13155,"date":"2015-10-14T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2015-10-14T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:19:03","slug":"the-economics-of-isis-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-isis-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of ISIS Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/101415_1215_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deir ez-Zor is a province in eastern Syria that has been controlled by the group formerly known as ISIS since 2014. Recently public accounts figures leaked and Zack Beauchamp took a look at what they showed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surprisingly only a third of ISIS&#8217;s revenue comes from oil sales.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the rest comes from &#8220;taxes&#8221; and &#8220;confiscations&#8221; \u2013 essentially what is likely extortion by the state government.<\/li>\n<li>On the one hand this is good news \u2013 there is only so much the government can confiscate before there&#8217;s nothing left.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand it means that bombing campaigns won&#8217;t do much good in degrading ISIS&#8217; finances. You can at least destroy oil production facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Most of ISIS expenditure is on soldier salaries, policing, and military bases.<\/li>\n<li>There is very little spent on economic development.<\/li>\n<li>However the group does devote 18% of its budget to what is called a &#8220;social services department&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more, and see some fascinating visualizations over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/10\/7\/9466633\/isis-financial-records\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/10\/7\/9466633\/isis-financial-records\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/10\/thursday-assorted-links-31.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deir ez-Zor is a province in eastern Syria that has been controlled by the group formerly known as ISIS since 2014. Recently public accounts figures leaked and Zack Beauchamp took a look at what they showed: Surprisingly only a third of ISIS&#8217;s revenue comes from oil sales. Most of the rest comes from &#8220;taxes&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","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\/2015\/10\/101415_1215_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","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=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13158,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}