{"id":516,"date":"2009-04-03T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-04-03T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:28:00","slug":"botswana-diamonds-may-not-save-from-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/botswana-diamonds-may-not-save-from-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: diamonds may not save from global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main resources of <strong>Botswana<\/strong> are <strong>diamonds<\/strong>. Though these may not keep the country safe from the consequences of the <strong>global economic crisis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>news<\/strong> appeared today on irinnews.org<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"reportbody\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>&#8220;The country \u2013 is stated on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report.aspx?ReportId=83784\">website<\/a> \u2013 relies heavily on <strong>diamonds<\/strong> for its <strong>development<\/strong>, but in tough economic times, deriving most of your revenue from a single resource can sour reputations. In March credit agencies downgraded Botswana&#8217;s rating&#8221;. <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"reportbody\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>The article quotes <\/span><\/span><span class=\"reportbody\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span><strong>Kristin Lindow<\/strong>, senior vice-president and regional credit officer for Africa at Moody&#8217;s, saying that the economic crisis <\/span><\/span><span class=\"reportbody\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>represents a &#8220;serious risk for Botswana&#8217;s diamond-dependent economy.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main resources of Botswana are diamonds. Though these may not keep the country safe from the consequences of the global economic crisis. The news appeared today on irinnews.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}