The general objective of the economic reform programme agreed upon with the IMF is to get Jordan’s economy beyond the dark tunnel that it finds itself in.

There is a wrong impression that the reform programme supervised by the IMF aims at reducing public debt.In fact, the programme allows debt to rise as borrowing will exceed repayments during each one of the coming five years.

According to the economic reform programme supervised by the IMF, the government is committed to raise the proceeds from taxes as one way of reducing budget deficit.The government also undertook to do that without imposing new taxes or raising the existing taxes.

We do not have to wait until the end of 2017, plus several months of the following year, for facts and figures to know whether Hani Mulki’s government succeeded in the implementation of the economic reform programme planned for 2017, or whether failure, big or small, occurred.The

In today's world, the structure of the national economy seems to depend on the capabilities of the private sector than on the so-called dead hand of the government.This is the case in countries with free economies.

When it comes to measuring the growth rate of the Jordanian economy, there is some misunderstanding.Growth is measured by comparing figures of the current year against the corresponding figures of the previous, as if the latter were ideal.In our case, unfortunately, the previous

According to a recent report by the World Bank, Jordan’s economic growth rate in 2017 is estimated to be 2.3 per cent.In the first instance, I did not like this figure, especially when the budget address to Parliament adopted the IMF figure revealed last year, which was 3.3 per c

Prime Minister Hani Mulki will very soon, perhaps next week, meet with the leaders of the industrial sector. The purpose is to look into the challenges and hurdles that are facing this vital sector and preventing its take-off as a leader of the economy.This is of course a we

There is near consensus among Jordanian observers that economic performance in 2016 was bad.They point out that most economic and fiscal indicators of the year gave negative readings and hope that things will get better in 2017.Actual figures do not support this pessimistic view