With olive oil consumption on the rise in Jordan and globally, the government has a powerful incentive to enhance the production and export of the country’s high-quality oil. If quality assurance standards are introduced and marketing strategies are improved, the world’s eighth-largest producer looks set to have a promising future in the medium-term...
Print media, particularly daily newspapers, continues to dominate the Jordanian advertising market. Local television receives only a small share of total national advertising spend as a result of Jordanians’ preference for pan-Arab stations over local channels. Currently, online advertising is limited and faces a number of technical and cultural...
With one of the best health care sectors in the Middle East, Jordan is the regional leader for medical tourism. Private-sector facilities host patients from both the region and further afield, and provide an important complement to public sector services. The Ministry of Health (MoH) is financially constrained – as are all public sector bodies in...
The calibre of Jordan’s human resources is a key factor behind its emergence as a regional IT centre, but the sector faces challenges on the labour front, including the need to ensure that the country’s universities continue to produce graduates up to speed with the latest technology. The government and the private sector are undertaking a range of...
The telecoms market in Jordan benefits from being largely liberalised and highly competitive, particularly in the mobile sector, which dominates the voice and internet segments in terms of subscriptions. In the early days of mobile phone technology Jordan was something of a pioneer, but fell slightly behind on the implementation of 3G. However, by...
In March 2010 Orange became the first operator to launch a 3G mobile service in Jordan, having acquired a 15-year licence – including a one-year exclusivity deal – the previous year. Zain joined Orange with the launch of its mobile broadband service in March 2011, with a network that uses HSPA+-based infrastructure. Then in January 2012 Jordan’s...
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