{"id":40092,"date":"2019-07-13T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40092"},"modified":"2019-07-13T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:25","slug":"west-africa-economy-leaders-push-for-single-currency-eco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40092","title":{"rendered":"West Africa economy: Leaders push for single currency ECO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>As many as 15 countries in West Africa have agreed to adopt a single currency, called ECO, next year. <\/p>\n<p>Experts are divided on the effect it would have on the region&#8217;s economy, especially in the eight member states that use the French-backed CFA franc. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Nicolas Haque has more on that from Senegal&#8217;s capital Dakar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 15 countries in West Africa have agreed to adopt a single currency, called ECO, next year. Experts are divided on the effect it would have on the region&#8217;s economy, especially in the eight member states that use the French-backed CFA franc. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Nicolas Haque has more on that from Senegal&#8217;s capital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40092","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\/40092","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=40092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}