Corporate governance is of great relevance to all types of corporations, but with banks and to the international financial system as a whole, it has an added meaning: it means financial stability. The Basel Committee, the primary global standard setter for the prudential regulat

Negative images of Jordan harm its attractiveness as an investment hub and its branding as a country where rights are fully protected. Can Jordan afford being labelled as a country that suffers from high corruption levels?

According to recent data, there are 6,355 schools in Jordan teaching over 1.7 million students and employing almost 84,000 teachers. Of these, 2,138 are private, with a student population of 425,000, or one fourth of students in Jordan. Some 33 of the schools offer the IGCSE/GC

Jordan would do well to invite more multinational corporations (MNCs), which would generate not only FDI inflows but also income from their investments. An enlightened policy should target the growth of FDI and the income from multinationals, both crucial for the stability of th

Head of the IMF Christine Lagarde said at the “Building the future: jobs, growth, and fairness in the Arab world” conference that was held last week in Amman while addressing the removal of the subsidies: “You are only credible if you are transparent and account

Analysing the Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s richest people (1996 to 2010), the London-based Centre for Policy Studies identified nearly 1,000 super entrepreneurs (people who earned, not inherited or were given their wealth, and their worth had to be at least $

The creative industries in Jordan are about to receive a boost in terms of access to finance from a very new source, crowdfunding, which stands for gathering financial backing for the backers — the “crowd” — to fund an initiative, a process that usually oc

Benjamin Franklin once said: “Certainty! In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” No, he was not living in Jordan, but even his inventive mind could not have come up with anything close to the 82 type of taxes and fees Jordan imposes.

The IMF is given to predicting outlooks, and one thing it predicts annually is the world economic outlook (WEO). This year, it predicts a world growth of 3.6 per cent in, up from 3.3 per cent in 2013. Jordan is expected to grow at 3.5 per cent, up from the 2.8 per cent of last