{"id":71581,"date":"2016-02-29T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71581"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:29:36","slug":"jordan-asks-for-more-world-bank-support-over-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/jordan-asks-for-more-world-bank-support-over-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan asks for more World Bank support over refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71582\" style=\"width: 798px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Syrian-refugees-in-a-military-camp-in-Jordan.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71582\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Syrian-refugees-in-a-military-camp-in-Jordan.jpg\" alt=\"Syrian refugees in a military camp in Jordan. (Photo courtesy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights\/O. Laban-Mattei) \" width=\"798\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Syrian-refugees-in-a-military-camp-in-Jordan.jpg 798w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Syrian-refugees-in-a-military-camp-in-Jordan-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Syrian-refugees-in-a-military-camp-in-Jordan-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrian refugees in a military camp in Jordan. (Photo courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations Commission on Human Rights<\/a>\/O. Laban-Mattei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AMMAN\u2014Jordan on Sunday called on the World Bank to increase its support to the country where one third of its population are now refugees, the state-run Petra news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour made the appeal at a meeting with a World Bank delegation, saying around three out of the 9.5 million people living in Jordan today are refugees, nearly half from Syrian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The international community sympathized with Europe for receiving hundreds of thousands of Syrians refugees so how about a small country like Jordan that receives 1.3 million Syrians,&#8221; the premier added.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan is looking forward to receiving more support from the World Bank, stressing that the stability of Jordan is crucial for that of the whole region.<\/p>\n<p>The influx of refugees has placed a heavy burden upon Jordan whose economy was also affected, said Ensour, adding that closure of borders with Iraq and Syria due to regional developments have also affected the Jordanian economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN\u2014Jordan on Sunday called on the World Bank to increase its support to the country where one third of its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-original","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}