Aziz, Atamanov; Jellema, Jon; Serajuddin, Umar - 2015
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 …