{"id":32089,"date":"2021-05-14T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/14\/myanmar-economy-democracy-dictatorship-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2021-05-14T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:00:53","slug":"remaking-myanmars-devastated-economy-is-the-key-for-a-future-democracy-thant-myint-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32089","title":{"rendered":"Remaking Myanmar&#8217;s devastated economy is the key for a future democracy | Thant Myint-U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictatorship must be resisted, but that\u2019s not enough. Solving the country\u2019s economic crisis could transform society<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar is facing an economic and humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. There is an urgent need to protect the poorest and most vulnerable and provide assistance in a way that doesn\u2019t entrench dictatorship. Equally important is to use this crisis to transform Myanmar\u2019s incredibly unequal and singularly exploitative political economy. It\u2019s the key to democratic change. It\u2019s also the key to creating a fairer, as well as a freer and more prosperous, society.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/myanmar-journalists-and-activists-arrested-in-thailand-after-fleeing-across-border\">Myanmar journalists and activists arrested in Thailand after fleeing across border<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/14\/myanmar-economy-democracy-dictatorship-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictatorship must be resisted, but that\u2019s not enough. Solving the country\u2019s economic crisis could transform societyMyanmar is facing an economic and humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. There is an urgent need to protect the poorest and most vuln&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32089\/revisions\/32090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}