{"id":9337,"date":"2013-07-29T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2013-07-28T23:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T03:14:46","slug":"the-economics-of-leaving-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-leaving-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Leaving Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072913_0309_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afghans are looking to leave Afghanistan due to the looming withdrawal of most NATO troops from the country write Rob Taylor and Mirwais Harooni:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a country stricken by poverty, those who have the money are paying for new identifies, visas and flights to new lives in new countries.<\/li>\n<li>As the date of the NATO withdrawal draws nearer prices have shot up. Securing passage to Europe used to cost $16,000. Now it&#8217;s $25,000. Getting to Canada can cost as much as $50,000.<\/li>\n<li>One country not on the list of potentials is the United States where it is thought to be too difficult to illegally secure entry.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey has recently made it easier for foreigners to buy property, making it a top destination.<\/li>\n<li>Some living in western countries have realized the opportunity they have. One Germany-based middleman sends letters of invitation to Afghans for visas to Romania, Italy or Germany for $2,773.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the Afghan exodus over <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/28\/us-afghanistan-exodus-idUKBRE96Q0C520130728\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/28\/us-afghanistan-exodus-idUKBRE96Q0C520130728\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans are looking to leave Afghanistan due to the looming withdrawal of most NATO troops from the country write Rob Taylor and Mirwais Harooni: In a country stricken by poverty, those who have the money are paying for new identifies, visas and flights to new lives in new countries. As the date of the NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072913_0309_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}