{"id":6779,"date":"2012-11-11T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:59:58","slug":"the-economics-of-the-american-election-pakistan-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-the-american-election-pakistan-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of The American Election: Pakistan Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111112_0744_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2012 American Presidential election was keenly watched by people across the world. Dawn looked at how Barack Obama&#8217;s victory is likely to transform the economics of one industry in Pakistan: American flag making.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama is a fairly unpopular figure in Pakistan due to his use of drone strikes in Pakistani territory.<\/li>\n<li>With his reelection, Pakistani flag-makers are expecting to see a surge in demand \u2013 for American flags \u2013 as disaffected citizens buy them to publicly set them on fire in protest of the strikes.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t the first time this year the flag makers have seen a boom in demand. Something similar happened when an anti-Islam film made in the United States surfaced on YouTube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out how much an American flag costs in Pakistan, and the varying quality of the flags you can purchase over <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.com\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-win-may-be-good-news-for-pakistan-flag-makers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.com\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-win-may-be-good-news-for-pakistan-flag-makers\/\">Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/11\/a-pakistani-view-on-the-economics-of-obamas-reelection.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 American Presidential election was keenly watched by people across the world. Dawn looked at how Barack Obama&#8217;s victory is likely to transform the economics of one industry in Pakistan: American flag making. Obama is a fairly unpopular figure in Pakistan due to his use of drone strikes in Pakistani territory. With his reelection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-american-elections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111112_0744_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","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=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13707,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions\/13707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}