{"id":6561,"date":"2016-01-13T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2016-01-13T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:52:40","slug":"what-if-they-were-really-set-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/01\/13\/what-if-they-were-really-set-free\/","title":{"rendered":"What if they were really set free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a two-page article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/What if they were really set free?\">Economist<\/a>\u00a0in early January. \u00a0It's about Ethiopia and how the country's doing these days \u2013 despite the government \u2013 and how much better off (in almost every sense) its people might yet become.<\/p>\n<p>The piece exemplifies why I find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/help\/about-us#About_Economistcom\">Economist<\/a> such a compelling read: it's informative \u2013 did you know that Ethiopia has opened 32 universities since 2000, and that the median age of its population is 19? \u00a0The first of these may well be a consequence of the second \u2013 it balances its coverage of the good with a focus on the egregiously awful, it is pellucidly clear\u00a0about its biases \u2013 open-trade and markets, internationalism, and liberal social policies \u2013 it's clear on its sources and where uncertainty lies, it explores issues in considerable depth, it's written with clarity, economy and considerable wit, it's moral without being too moralistic, and it's all rather unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a global learning enthusiast, I'd hope it became\u00a0required critical reading for my students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a two-page article in the Economist\u00a0in early January. \u00a0It's about Ethiopia and how the country's doing these days \u2013 despite the government \u2013 and how much better off (in almost every sense) its people might...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}