Jordan: Strategy for Adjustment and Growth
May 20, 1996
Summary
The paper analyzes the major progress Jordan has made in recent years in macroeconomic stabilization and the transformation of its economic structure. It discusses recent economic developments, macroeconomic policies, and structural reforms and examines the factors underpinning growth, including structural reforms in key areas such as public finance, the financial system, the trade and exchange regime, Jordan's external debt-management strategy, and the dynamics of the public debt and its sustainability.
Subject: Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, National accounts, Private investment, Public debt, Tariffs, Taxes
Keywords: Commercial banks, debt service, Eastern Europe, external debt-management strategy, factors underpinning growth, financing constraint, Fiscal stance, Jordan, Jordan dinar, lending program, Middle East, OP, Private investment, Tariffs
Pages:
80
Volume:
1996
DOI:
Issue:
002
Series:
Occasional Paper No. 1996/002
Stock No:
S136EA0000000
ISBN:
9781557755582
ISSN:
0251-6365





