{"id":20943,"date":"2018-11-03T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20943"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:23:10","slug":"venezuela-exodus-takes-its-toll-on-colombian-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20943","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela exodus takes its toll on Colombian economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68.3703703704\">\n<p>More than a million Venezuelans have been living in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/colombia.html\">Colombia<\/a>, taking a heavy toll on its public services in border regions.<\/p>\n<p>As per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/world-bank.html\">World Bank<\/a> report, which praises Colombia&#8217;s &#8220;open arms&#8221; policy and its efforts to register the new arrivals, the crisis has cost the country around $1.2bn this year alone. However, the report, submitted on Friday, says, it could be good for Colombia&#8217;s economy in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Alessandro Rampietti has more from the border city of Cucuta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million Venezuelans have been living in Colombia, taking a heavy toll on its public services in border regions. As per a World Bank report, which praises Colombia&#8217;s &#8220;open arms&#8221; policy and its efforts to register the new arrivals, the crisis has cost the country around $1.2bn this year alone. However, the report,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}