{"id":42530,"date":"2023-01-15T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T10:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/?p=42530"},"modified":"2024-05-03T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:15:13","slug":"lebanon-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/lebanon-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Lebanon in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, today over 80% of Lebanon&#8217;s population lives below the official poverty line. Years of political instability, inept governance, and corruption led to a colossal debt burden in the country following the end of the civil war in 1990. New loans were used to repay old ones, until eventually it became unsustainable, writes Mondo&#8217;s Middle-East Project Manager Elisabeth Viinalass. Read the whole story in Estonian in <a href=\"https:\/\/epl.delfi.ee\/artikkel\/120252417\/liibanon-kriisis-kui-enam-hullemaks-minna-ei-saa-siis-kuidagi-ikka-saab\">Eesti P\u00e4evaleht<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, today over 80% of Lebanon&#8217;s population lives below the official poverty line. Years of political instability, inept governance, and corruption led to a colossal debt burden in the country following the end of the civil war in 1990. New loans were used to repay old ones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":42531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,929861,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-cooperation","category-liibanon-en","category-uudised-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42539,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530\/revisions\/42539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondo.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}