{"id":414278,"date":"2020-03-30T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/03\/1060652"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:56:37","slug":"bulk-of-developing-world-faces-hardship-as-virus-exacerbates-economic-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/03\/30\/bulk-of-developing-world-faces-hardship-as-virus-exacerbates-economic-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk of developing world faces hardship, as virus exacerbates economic frailty\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six billion people \u2013 that\u2019s the bulk of the developing world \u2013 look set to suffer from the economic impact of the new coronavirus pandemic, the UN trade and development organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/unctad.org\/feed\/view\/en\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" title=\"UN Conference on Trade and Development\" class=\"word-link\" >UNCTAD<\/a>, says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with UN News\u2019s Daniel Johnson by Skype, UNCTAD economist Richard Kozul-Wright outlines how a radical plan worth a staggering $2.5 trillion, could help avoid some of the worst financial consequences of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/03\/1060652\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six billion people \u2013 that\u2019s the bulk of the developing world \u2013 look set to suffer from the economic impact of the new coronavirus pandemic, the UN trade and development organization, UNCTAD, says.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn an interview with UN News\u2019s Daniel Johnson by Skype&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414279,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414278\/revisions\/414279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}