{"id":54,"date":"2025-03-12T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2025-03-12T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:46:10","slug":"economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>economy of Belize<\/strong>\u00a0is a small, essentially private enterprise economy that is based primarily on agriculture, tourism, and services. The cultivation of newly discovered oil in the town of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Lookout\">Spanish Lookout<\/a>\u00a0has presented new prospects and problems for this developing nation.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Belize#cite_note-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belize\">Belize<\/a>&#8216;s primary exports are citrus, sugar, and bananas. Belize&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trade_deficit\">trade deficit<\/a>\u00a0has been growing, mostly as a result of low export prices for sugar and bananas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The\u00a0economy of Belize\u00a0is a small, essentially private enterprise economy that is based primarily on agriculture, tourism, and services. The cultivation of newly discovered oil in the town of\u00a0Spanish Lookout\u00a0has presented new prospects and problems for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=54\" title=\"Economy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}