{"id":262,"date":"2024-03-04T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T13:17:07","slug":"azerbaijan-a-rentier-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: A Rentier State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Published in 2019.<\/em><\/strong> You may have heard of the term rentier state. It means that state budget of a resource-rich country comprises mostly of oil revenues, not taxpayer money or for-profit companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term has been used to describe Arab countries during the oil boom in the 1970s. In a rentier state, the level of influence that people have on the government is significantly reduced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of taxpayers in the budget process is decreased, and so is public participation. Azerbaijan spends its budget like a rentier state without observing accountability and transparency, and with no public participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-Rentier-State.pdf\">Download full report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2019. You may have heard of the term rentier state. It means that state budget of a resource-rich country comprises mostly of oil revenues, not taxpayer money or for-profit companies. The term has been used to describe Arab countries during the oil boom in the 1970s. In a rentier state, the level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-files","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegubadfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}