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The latest verified economic news, official data and analysis on Jordan, from The Edge for Economic Consultancy.
Macro · Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Aqaba Container Terminal handled 107,803 twenty foot equivalent units in September, a monthly record for the third consecutive month and its third…
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Macro · Oct 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Jordan's economy grew 3 percent in the second quarter of 2026, up from 2.8 percent a year earlier, Petra, the Jordan News…
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Egypt · Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expects Egypt's economy to grow 4.6 percent this year and raised its 2027 forecast for…
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Macro · Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min read
The Central Bank of Jordan has raised interest rates on all monetary policy instruments by 25 basis points, with effect from Monday…
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Macro · Sep 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Workers' remittances into Jordan reached 2,966.4 million dollars in the first 7 months of 2026, 14.1 percent more than the same period…
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Macro · Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Jordan's cabinet has extended Adel Al-Sharkas's term as Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan by 5 years, the state news agency…
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Macro · Sep 16, 2026 · 4 min read
Jordan's total exports grew by more than 14 percent in the first half of 2026, Industry, Trade and Supply Minister Yarub Qudah…
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Macro · Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Total investment in Jordan's development zones rose from about 5.819 billion dinars to close to 6.9 billion in the first half of…
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Macro · Sep 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Jordan’s Department of Statistics published two monthly readings on Sunday. Consumer prices rose 2.66 percent in August against the same month of…
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Macro · Sep 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Companies operating at Jordan's customs and border centres organized and completed procedures for 656,000 customs declarations between the start of this year…
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Macro · Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Jordan's unemployment rate for the total population fell to 16.1 percent in the second quarter of 2026, down 0.4 percentage points from…
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Macro · Aug 29, 2026 · 7 min read
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Jordan's long and short term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at BB-/B on August 28, 2026,…
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Aqaba Container Terminal handled 107,803 twenty foot equivalent units in September, a monthly record for the third consecutive month and its third straight month above 100,000, while serving 53 vessels, the company said in a statement carried by Petra. September’s volume was 36.8 percent above the terminal’s average monthly throughput in the first half of…
Jordan’s economy grew 3 percent in the second quarter of 2026, up from 2.8 percent a year earlier, Petra, the Jordan News Agency, reported on 1 October. The figures are at constant prices. Manufacturing Supplies a Third of Growth Manufacturing grew 6.2 percent and made the largest contribution to growth, 1.04 percentage points, or about…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expects Egypt’s economy to grow 4.6 percent this year and raised its 2027 forecast for Egypt to 5.0 percent from 4.9 percent, in its Regional Economic Prospects published on 24 September. The bank lowered its 2026 forecasts for Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. It cut Iraq’s deepest: from a…
The Central Bank of Jordan has raised interest rates on all monetary policy instruments by 25 basis points, with effect from Monday 21 September 2026. The Open Market Operations Committee took the decision at its sixth meeting of 2026, and licensed banks were notified in circular number 5/2026, signed by the Governor, Dr Adel Al-Sharkas,…
Workers’ remittances into Jordan reached 2,966.4 million dollars in the first 7 months of 2026, 14.1 percent more than the same period of 2025, and tourism income reached 1,139.4 million dollars in August alone, 17.2 percent more than August 2025, on preliminary figures published by the central bank on 17 September. The remittance series is…
Jordan’s cabinet has extended Adel Al-Sharkas’s term as Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan by 5 years, the state news agency Petra reported on 17 September. It said foreign currency reserves reached 28.4 billion dollars at the end of August, compared with 18 billion dollars at the end of 2021. Reserves up by more…
Jordan’s total exports grew by more than 14 percent in the first half of 2026, Industry, Trade and Supply Minister Yarub Qudah told a meeting of the Jordanian Businessmen Association on 16 September. The composition is the finding. National exports, meaning locally produced goods, rose 6.2 percent. Re-exports rose 44 percent, seven times as fast,…
Total investment in Jordan’s development zones rose from about 5.819 billion dinars to close to 6.9 billion in the first half of 2026, a rise of 18.79 percent, and the jobs those zones support rose from about 117,000 to close to 123,000. The Ministry of Investment published its half year performance report on Tuesday and…
Jordan’s Department of Statistics published two monthly readings on Sunday. Consumer prices rose 2.66 percent in August against the same month of 2025 and fell 0.25 percent against July, with inflation across the first eight months running at 2.20 percent. Industrial output rose 1.22 percent in July against a year earlier, but manufacturing supplied more…
Companies operating at Jordan’s customs and border centres organized and completed procedures for 656,000 customs declarations between the start of this year and August 18, the Association of Owners of Clearance and Transport Companies told the Jordan News Agency, Petra, in a release that also showed commercial exports from Zarqa climbing to approximately 43.84 million…