The Middle East Economy

Facing low growth and a mounting fiscal burden, policymakers in Jordan are making preparations to support long-term economic recovery and to encourage greater investment in emerging business segments such as infrastructure and energy.

While Jordan is known throughout the region for the high quality of its education, the emigration of thousands of Jordanians to opportunities in the Gulf and further afield each year results in a drain of highly skilled workers. At the same time, the domestic supply of jobs has only just kept pace with demand, indicating unemployment would be...

As most countries seek to stimulate economic growth in response to widespread stagnation, the topic of economic reform once again has taken centre stage. Jordan has been introducing various economic reform programmes since the early 1960s; however, most of these efforts were interrupted due in large part to region political instability and...

Amid regional turbulence, Jordan remains relatively stable and cohesive. This is a key advantage that the kingdom offers to foreign investors, who continue to use the country as a base for targeting growth markets in the region, and who are stepping up their involvement in core domestic industries such as energy, health care and information...