Using firm-level data for Jordan, the paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct …

mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset … Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed …

of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It combines a large number of data …

(of which 639,704 registered refugees). Additionally, since Jordan benefits from the GCC for remittances, exports, FDI and …Amidst a turbulent regional political and security environment, Jordan wrestles with sluggish growth and high … widening Jordan's output gap, with growth declining from 3.1 percent in 2014 to 2.4 percent for 2015. However, growth remained …

Jordan's economic performance remains tempered in 2017 while the fiscal adjustment is in progress; yet there are … a robust performance in tourism. Jordan's industrial sector is expected to regain momentum based on a recovery in mining …

As the Arab Spring unfolded and political unrest spread across the Arab world, Jordan faced an adverse economy as well … from Egypt and Jordan abruptly had to switch to using imported oil products (heavy fuel oil and diesel) to produce … the petroleum subsidies. The chapter is organized as follows. Section two traces the evolution of subsidies in Jordan in …