{"id":2268,"date":"2010-02-23T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:47:58","slug":"cost-of-road-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/cost-of-road-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of road transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8524137.stm\">Viewpoint: Measuring success in Afghanistan<\/a>, Fotini Christia, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently spent time in Afghanistan researching conflict and development says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cost of transporting goods is increased by violence and the chances of being attacked on the roads. If transport costs on a route were to fall it would be a positive sign.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 Afghanistan&#8217;s lorry drivers&#8217; union estimated that each vehicle pays more than $6,500 (\u00a34,216) annually in taxes and bribes extorted on Afghanistan&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p>Such costs are an important measure of the security situation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in Viewpoint: Measuring success in Afghanistan, Fotini Christia, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently spent time in Afghanistan researching conflict and development says: The cost of transporting goods is increased by violence and the chances of being attacked on the roads. If transport costs on a route were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,149],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-bbc","tag-roads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}