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Business opportunities in Jordan Laith ALRahahleh Project Coordinator The climate is Area Arid and semi- 90,000 Km 2 arid 100 cubic meter Population Per Capita 9.8 million 9.7% of GDP 60% of population allocates for between 15- 60


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Laith ALRahahleh Project Coordinator

Business opportunities in Jordan

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Area 90,000 Km2 Population 9.8 million The climate is Arid and semi- arid 100 cubic meter Per Capita The share of RE in the energy mix is 7% 60% of population between 15- 60 year old The climate is Arid and semi- arid 9.7% of GDP allocates for Education

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Migration influxes

Refugees Number Source Date Syrians 629,883 UNHCR 31 July 2015 Palestine 2,097,338 UNRWA 01 July 2014 Palestine from Syria 15,000 UNRWA 15 May 2015 Iraqi 50,000 UNHRC 31 July 2017 TOTAL 2,792,221 Therfore, the challenge is (how to simulate the Economic growth and create more jobs and host all refugees without any Environmental damages) (SDGs 2030)

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Jordan Response Plan for the Syrian Crisis JRP

  • What?
  • Why?
  • How much?
  • What is now?

0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 Education Energy Health Food security Social protection WASH Security support billion US $ JRP 2016-2018

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Economy background and its indicators

  • The economy is classified as upper middle liberal economy
  • Jordan has stable political environment and very safe country (ranked 31th in

police reliability for (2015-2016)

  • Jordan infrastructure ranks 38th out of 148 comparable economies (7377 KM

road network). Therefore, connecting Levant countries with GCCs

  • Jordan banking system is quite sophisticated, resilient and in compliance with

international standards, making it very attractive and trustworthy to investors

  • Jordan

exports mainly, vegetables, potassium, phosphate, textiles and pharmaceutical products

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Economy Indicators

5.8 4.2 8.6 7.1 6.3 6 5.6 3.1 2.4 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2014 2015 2016

%

Real growth of GDP, %

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Finance, real estate, and buisness services 24% Mining 2% Transport,stora ge and communication 17% Construction 6% Trade, resturants and Hotels 12% Manufacturing 19% Agriculture 4% Government services 13% Electrcity and water 3%

Share of each sector in the GDP

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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 % Percentage of GDP, % Export Import Exports and Imports

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10.1 11 10.6 13.3 24.4 21.2 22.2 24.1 12.7 12.9 12.6 15.3

5 10 15 20 25 30 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

%

Unemployment rate Male Female Unemoplyment rate Unemployment rate

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Member of WTO agreement since 2000 Member in 8 Trade Free Agreements (FTAs) Member in 55 Bilateral Investment Treaties Member in 27 Double taxation Treaties

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One of the world’s leading Bank (Arab Bank) Two of the best International pharmaceutical companies (HIKMA and Dar Al Dawa) Two of the top ICT based global companies

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Developmental areas and Free zones

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Developmental areas and Free zones

Year Number of companies Invested capital Exports workforce (million JOD) (million JOD) 2016 792 2583 1222 45339 2017 903 3358 1552 57770 2018 993 3694 1707 63547 2019 1093 4063 1878 69902 2020 1202 4470 2066 76892 2021 1322 4917 2272 84581 2022 1455 5409 2499 93039 2023 1600 5950 2749 102373 2024 1760 6545 3024 112578 2025 1936 7199 3327 123835

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Investment opportunaties

Tourism Clean energy Healthcare Mega projects ICT

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Thanks for your attention

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