{"id":14088,"date":"2016-05-23T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14088"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:19:11","slug":"un-votes-for-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/un-votes-for-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Votes For Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/052316_1316_UNVotesForC1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist took a look at how votes at the UN can be converted into cold hard currency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One analysis indicated that African countries that vote along with China at the UN see a boost in the amount of aid that they receive from the Middle Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Every 10% increase in the amount of votes alongside China&#8217;s, leads approximately to an 86% boost in aid.<\/li>\n<li>If Rwanda, for example, were to increase the number of votes it cast with China from 67% to 93% it could, perhaps, see a 289% boost in Chinese cash.<\/li>\n<li>The practice isn&#8217;t limited to China. The United States also awards more aid projects to countries that vote along with it.<\/li>\n<li>However, America&#8217;s record is more mixed. It, for example, provides billions to Afghanistan, but Afghanistan enjoys voting contrary to American preferences.<\/li>\n<li>What seems wasteful is that diplomats from several countries \u2013 such as Burundi and Swaziland \u2013 don&#8217;t show up for a large proportion of the most important votes. They may be leaving money on the table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21697001-want-more-cash-vote-china-united-nations-despots-guide-foreign?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21697001-want-more-cash-vote-china-united-nations-despots-guide-foreign?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist took a look at how votes at the UN can be converted into cold hard currency: One analysis indicated that African countries that vote along with China at the UN see a boost in the amount of aid that they receive from the Middle Kingdom. Every 10% increase in the amount of votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14088","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\/2016\/05\/052316_1316_UNVotesForC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088","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=14088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14091,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088\/revisions\/14091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}