{"id":58076,"date":"2020-09-04T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?p=26471"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:25:22","slug":"2020-09-04-26471-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/news\/2020-09-04-26471-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Toshiro Nishizawa&#8217;s views on Laos quoted by the Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Professor Toshiro Nishizawa&#8217;s views on Laos was quoted by the Financial Times, September 3, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Toshiro Nishizawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo\u2019s Graduate School of Public Policy and a member of a fiscal policy team advising Laos, warned of the risk of a &#8220;national economic emergency&#8221; in the wake of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;A risk of sovereign default is a potential threat to the fiscal operations for Laos, with a resulting hardship to ordinary people in Laos,&#8221; said Prof Nishizawa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;External debt services are large enough to add pressure on scarce foreign exchange reserves in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dc3f5981-4fd9-4e3a-9824-5b9ddf70735e?shareType=nongift\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dc3f5981-4fd9-4e3a-9824-5b9ddf70735e?shareType=nongift<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Toshiro Nishizawa&#8217;s views on Laos was quoted by the Financial Times, September 3, 2020. *** To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[196],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-faculty-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}