On average, new income tax laws in Jordan are issued once every three years. Stability regarding this sensitive domain does not exist. Therefore, the battle between the government, the Parliament and business circles continues.

Most economic indicators are judged and understood as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Some strong groups have been able to impose on weak governments total or partial exemption of taxes.

After seven lean years of low economic growth, observers were hoping that growth will start to rise. Growth rate, instead, registered more decline.

Several years ago, “middle class” as a political and social concept was not in circulation in Jordan.

Jordan’s foreign trade sector is very important, it reflects the big picture of the economic activities, a picture that we are not happy with.The volume of foreign trade, imports and exports combined, amounts to around two thirds of the gross domestic product.

The latest data from the Department of Statistics for the third quarter of 2017 indicated that unemployment rate in Jordan has stabilised at a new level, a record of 18.5 per cent, one of the highest in the world.We hoped that unemployment will start to decline due to the publici

We have recently started to depend on numbers and percentages to measure success and failure in reaching the financial and economic objectives, instead of making valued judgements.Most, if not all, basic statistics are issued by the government, which needs full trust that numbers

The draft budget for 2018 indicates that public expenditure will form around 32 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).This is obviously a very high ratio: it reveals the fact that Jordan’s public sector is vast, so are salaries, wages, retirement sand subsidies etc.The dra