{"id":15020,"date":"2014-07-03T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:48:35","slug":"how-good-is-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15020","title":{"rendered":"How good is your country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Anholt is a British policy adviser who has developed a Good Country Index.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to measure what each country on Earth contributes to the common good of humanity, and what it takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and other international organisations, he has given each country a balance-sheet to show at a glance whether it\u2019s a net creditor to mankind, a burden on the planet, or something in between.<\/p>\n<p>The top country may surprise you. You can find the full list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodcountry.org\/overall\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find an 18-minute TED Talk on the concept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/simon_anholt_which_country_does_the_most_good_for_the_world?utm_source=newsletter_daily&amp;utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=button__2014-07-02\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Anholt is a British policy adviser who has developed a Good Country Index. The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to measure what each country on Earth contributes to the common good of humanity, and what it takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and other international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}