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The economy of Jordan is a lower-middle income economy according to Jordan’s Wikipedia entry but is classified by the World Food Programme as an upper-middle income economy. [1] Jordan 's GDP per capita rose by 351% in the 1970s, declined 30% in the 1980s, and rose 36% in the 1990s. [ 15 ]
Jordan renounced its claim to the territory to the Palestinians in 1988 and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Jordan is a semi-arid country, covering an area of 89,342 km 2 (34,495 sq mi) with a population of 11.5 million, making it the eleventh-most populous Arab country.
In years between 2000/2001 and 2006/2007, Jordan has seen an increased demand for higher education, with enrollments growing at an annual rate of 14% from 77,841 to 218,900 students in that time period. Jordan has tertiary gross enrollment levels of about 40%, which is higher than the regional average.
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (Yale University Press; 2008) excerpt; Bradshaw, Tancred. Britain and Jordan: imperial strategy, King Abdullah I and the Zionist movement (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). El-Anis, Imad H. (2011). Jordan and the United States : the political economy of trade and economic reform in the Middle East. London ...
Jordan, a popular winter sun destination for tourists, shares its northern border with both Israel and Syria, and travellers with trips booked may be questioning the wisdom of holidaying there ...
For hundreds of thousands of individuals every year, filing for bankruptcy is often the only option that is going to allow the person to return to a stable financial place.
When Jordan first tried to sell his home back in 2012—the same year that “Gangnam Style” was the song of the summer—he listed the 56,000-square-foot residence for $29 million. However, the ...
The first lists show the most recent year where there is published total fertility rate (TFR) data ranked by sovereign states and dependencies, and are ordered by organization type – intergovernmental, governmental, or non-governmental organization that searched, organized, and published the data.