{"id":36310,"date":"2021-09-02T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/can-taliban-revive-afghanistan-shattered-economy"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:08:10","slug":"can-the-taliban-revive-afghanistans-shattered-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36310","title":{"rendered":"Can the Taliban revive Afghanistan\u2019s shattered economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the group prepares to announce a government, it may have to count on its former foes to finance its future<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took Afghanistan in a lightning advance through its capitals, exposing the weakness of the Kabul government and humbling the US and its allies. This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/last-man-out-the-haunting-image-of-americas-final-moments-in-afghanistan\">withdrawal of western forces<\/a> is their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/gunfire-fills-the-air-in-kabul-as-taliban-celebrate-airport-takeover\">greatest victory<\/a>. As they prepare to announce their government, reviving Afghanistan\u2019s shattered economy may be the group\u2019s biggest challenge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/can-taliban-revive-afghanistan-shattered-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the group prepares to announce a government, it may have to count on its former foes to finance its futureThe Taliban took Afghanistan in a lightning advance through its capitals, exposing the weakness of the Kabul government and humbling the US and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"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":[46,247,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36310","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions\/36311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}