{"id":3714,"date":"2023-06-06T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:57:27","slug":"edmunds-krastins-essay-why-latvia-cannot-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/2023\/06\/06\/edmunds-krastins-essay-why-latvia-cannot-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmunds Krasti\u0146\u0161 essay: Why Latvia Cannot Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Association board member Edmunds Krasti\u0146\u0161 has developed a historic essay titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/2023\/06\/06\/edmunds-krastins-essay-why-latvia-cannot-do-better\/why-cannot-latvia-do-better\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3716\">Why cannot Latvia do better?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus, my hypothesis is that the main obstacle on the path of Latvia\u2019s development is the culture of society deformed during the occupation, it has never been fully modernised and sufficiently elevated to the standards of the free world in the 30 years of independence.<\/p>\n<p>Latvian version available on:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ru8zZUl8yL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/2023\/02\/10\/edmunda-krastina-eseja-kapec-latvija-nevar-labak\/\">Edmunda Krasti\u0146a eseja K\u0101p\u0113c Latvija nevar lab\u0101k?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Edmunda Krasti\u0146a eseja K\u0101p\u0113c Latvija nevar lab\u0101k?&#8221; &#8212; www.ekonomisti.lv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/2023\/02\/10\/edmunda-krastina-eseja-kapec-latvija-nevar-labak\/embed\/#?secret=e6ohrrL37d#?secret=Ru8zZUl8yL\" data-secret=\"Ru8zZUl8yL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- WP Attachments -->\r\n        <div style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0 10px 0;\">\r\n            <h3>---<\/h3>\r\n        <ul class=\"post-attachments\"><li class=\"post-attachment mime-application-pdf\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/2023\/06\/06\/edmunds-krastins-essay-why-latvia-cannot-do-better\/?download=3716\">Why cannot Latvia do better<\/a> <small>&bull; 757 kB &bull; 471 click<\/small> <div style=\"float:right;\">06.06.2023<\/div><br><small><\/small><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Association board member Edmunds Krasti\u0146\u0161 has developed a historic essay titled Why cannot Latvia do better? Thus, my hypothesis is that the main obstacle on the path of Latvia\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/2023\/06\/06\/edmunds-krastins-essay-why-latvia-cannot-do-better\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/><font color=#445f85><b>Read more&#8230;<\/b><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,140,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actual","category-archive","category-investigations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekonomisti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}