{"id":382789,"date":"2017-12-13T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382789"},"modified":"2017-12-12T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T22:14:36","slug":"left-die-local-shoe-industry-struggles-attention-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382789","title":{"rendered":"Left to die: Local shoe industry struggles for attention [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s footwear industry has seen a dip over the past three decades and this has been blamed on the lack of political will by successive governments to sustain the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with this is the high cost of operation for businesses who have attempted to revive the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of Citi Business News\u2019 series,\u00a0<strong>Left to Die<\/strong>, Pius Amihere Eduku explores the dynamics of the factors at play in impeding the growth of Ghana\u2019s footwear industry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/citi97-3\/left-to-die-local-shoe-industry-struggles-for-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to listen to full audio report.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/368674700&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s footwear industry has seen a dip over the past three decades and this has been blamed on the lack of political will by successive governments to sustain the industry. Coupled with this is the high cost of operation for businesses who have attempted to revive the industry. In the 7th\u00a0of Citi Business News\u2019 series,\u00a0Left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":382790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[15401,15366,15400],"class_list":["post-382789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","tag-asopaatse","tag-dihoc","tag-horseman-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}