With small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accounting for 98% of all businesses in the king-dom, according to the Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO), this sector should be of major interest to the country’s banks. Yet historically, SMEs have accounted for a relatively small amount of banking business, as lenders have concentrated...
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...
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...
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan covers an area of 89,342 sq km and shares 1635 km of land borders with Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian Territories (the West Bank), Saudi Arabia and Syria, as well as 26 km of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba in the south. Topographically, the country is divided into three main areas: the Jor-dan Valley (part of the...
6 10 14 15 16 17 20 30 31 33 34 35 33 SNAPSHOT Bahrain in figures COUNTRY PROFILE Island of empires: The kingdom has been a global trade centre for centuries One from many: The GCC has become a catalyst for collaboration and mutually beneficial development Interview: Hala Mohammed Al Ansari, Secretary-General, Supreme Council for Women...
NATIONAL CHARACTER: Compared to other Gulf states, Bahrain is considered one of the more liberal and progressive societies in the region. Its culture embraces a unique fusion of Arab tradition and modernity. Although highly receptive to international cultures, as evident by the substantial population...
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