{"id":37438,"date":"2021-09-29T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/pacific-nations-face-lost-decade-due-to-economic-cost-of-covid"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:40:14","slug":"pacific-nations-face-lost-decade-due-to-economic-cost-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37438","title":{"rendered":"Pacific nations face \u2018lost decade\u2019 due to economic cost of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Islands face greatest economic contraction in four decades, according to a new report from the Lowy Institute<\/p>\n<p>Countries in the Pacific risk a \u201clost decade\u201d following the Covid pandemic, with the region facing its greatest economic contraction in four decades, according to a new report into foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map, which sets out aid spending and donations to the Pacific Islands region, shows US$2.44bn in foreign aid reached the Pacific in 2019, which is about 8% of the region\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/pacific-nations-face-lost-decade-due-to-economic-cost-of-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Islands face greatest economic contraction in four decades, according to a new report from the Lowy InstituteCountries in the Pacific risk a \u201clost decade\u201d following the Covid pandemic, with the region facing its greatest economic contraction in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"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":[43,324,50,319,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-pacific-islands","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\/37438","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\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37438\/revisions\/37439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}