How will the new government balance the need to increase revenues while simultaneously decreasing expenditures?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Umayya Toukan, Minister of Finance from The Report: Jordan 2013
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Abdullah Ensour, Prime Minister of Jordan from The Report: Jordan 2013
How will the new government ensure a greater sense of political continuity, confidence and struc-ture moving forward?
Articles & Analysis | Grand designs: Scheduled reforms and new investment set the course for development from The Report: Jordan 2013
In 1995 Jordan’s parliament passed the Investment Pro-motion Law, a wide-ranging instrument aimed at attracting foreign and domestic interest to key sec-tors. In 2000 the law was amended, giving priority to eight areas of the economy and to two sub-sectors, with investments in these fields receiving benefits that ranged from tax incentives to...
Articles & Analysis | Time of transition: A gradual process of political reform moves forward from The Report: Jordan 2013
The past several years have seen significant changes in Jordan, with protests, constitutional reforms and most recently, elections held in early 2013 all reshap-ing the country’s political landscape. While it is still very much a work in progress, King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein has called for a move to a political system in which an elected...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Baroness Morris of Bolton, UK Trade Envoy to Jordan, Kuwait & the Palestinian Territories from The Report: Jordan 2013
To what extent is the unrest in nearly all of Jordan’s neighbouring countries affecting inward foreign direct investment (FDI) from the UK?