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The cost of delaying policy
Started Nov 23
ضعف الأداء وتقاعس القرار
Started Nov 22
لا تنتظر الإصلاح الاقتصادي
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Yusuf Mansur Nov 18.
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Just another economist who believes in the power of creativity
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Hesitating in setting and executing economic policies is costly and brings to question the effectiveness of policy makers’ roles as economy managers.
The assumption that policies can be executed according to the adage “better late than never” is ...
AlGhad, 22/11/2009
Paying Taxes 2010 - The Global Picture
This is the fifth year that the World Bank Group’s Doing Business project has included the "paying taxes" indicator. The indicator measures the ease of paying taxes in 183 economies around the world. Besides ...
While reading the article, I also read the below on the same site and found it even more telling:) What do you think?
Here is he link, it is an informative site. Thank you
:http://2020science.org/2008/12/10/tough-love-for-science-and-technology-i...
شكرا جزيلا عبير، هل من الممكن الحصول علىنسخ من هذه المقالات ووضعها على أردن مبدع
Dale, really sorry I will miss this event, sounds truly cool and necessary and in line with many initiatives that true reformers are attempting to push. Can we have papers, videos, twitters etc. posted here? Imrpoving teh business environment to a...
Thanks Dr Nael, will add to this cache
مدونتي على لا شرف في الجريمة
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- At 4:35pm on November 17, 2009,
Mais Haddadin Finn said…
- I really enjoyed reading your article in Jordan Times today!!
I can't wait for Jordan and Jordanian to move from the victim mentality into the mover and shaker where we are in control of our economy and future!!
- At 7:21pm on July 5, 2009,
suad issawi said… - اهلا يا دكتور يوسف
كيفك؟
أرجو ان تكون بخير
تحياتي
- At 11:04am on July 4, 2009,
khalil suleiman abu saleem said… - تحياتي الحارة والصادقة للدكتور يوسف منصور ولجميع الاخوة والزملاء على موقع اردن مبدع واخص منهم الاخت الفاضلة هند حماها الله واياكم وفعلا انني سعيد بالتواصل معكم عبر هذا الموقع المميز وقدرنا جميعا ان نكون عربا احرارا ننهل من حبنا لاوطاننا التي فرقها الاستعمار لنبقى قابضين على جمر الحرية ونار الاخوة
- At 3:42pm on May 6, 2009,
Mike V. Derderian said… - Thank you...
This cyber place is quite exciting and a brilliant way to connect Jordan's creative gene pool.
Best of luck and have a good day,
Mike,
A Homo sapien and a writer trying to get a hold of a banana in a world governed by apes...
- At 6:02pm on April 19, 2009,
Mohanned said… - Just wanted to thank you for your tax piece in Al-ghad. The influence of the financial sector, namely banks, on "decision making" in our country is just unbelievable. One more thing, what do you think of the central bank move? Basem El salem's comments last week on the government urging and coordinating with the central bank to lower interest rate resulted the lowering of the interest rate. What is inetresting is that Omayya Toukan commented that "we live in a democracy and everyone is entitled to his opinion" refering to Al-salems comments. I mean, you can sense from his tone that he is not in favor of lowering the rates, but later the central bank moved and lowered the rates! Is this a clue that the central bank is not actually independent? If so, isn't that dangerous?
Looking forward to reading more of your take on the issue.
It is interesting to see that while the chicago school of economics policies has failed in their own backyard, their desciples in jordan are still as loyal as they ever were!
- At 12:39am on February 10, 2009,
Deena said… - Thank you for that! Joining in on the effort sounds like a good idea on my part, because while you have the resources to conduct research, we can help get your research findings ‘out there’ – ie. make them accessible and get them debated. Obviously la sharaf fil qatil is still in its early stages, and I won’t be back in Amman till June, but I think it’s worth considering how both initiatives can work together so that, hopefully, we can finally address this issue.
The next stage of la sharaf fil qatil will involve starting a facebook group to make the logo and aims of the campaign public and recognizable. I also noticed that there is a feature that allows adding groups into the Urdun Mubdi3 network, so it might be worth forming one there too (if that is ok with you?). Any preliminary findings you have would be helpful in these pages as they would help highlight the severity of the issue.
Any other suggestions you have would be very valuable to our team. Thank you again!
- At 10:48am on January 4, 2009,
Khalid Al-Hmoud said… - oh, I see I can leave wall messages! Sorry, I am new to this website so it will take me some time to familiarize myself to its content. Cheers!
- At 8:37pm on December 29, 2008,
Thomas Lund-Sørensen said… - Dear Yusuf,
Thanks for the invit. I hope to be able to contribute from time to time - most probably with shorter postings about lessons that we in DK have learned from. The other day after your article I was looking for material on how we want to transform DK inot a creative economy - but I didn't come up with much - mostly it is taken as a given that we are already one - which is partly but not totally true. But I'll keep digging.
Lets have lunch early january - I am going to the UAE for Masdar and meetings with danish (and Jordanian) business people so I want to get my jordan economic perspetive right before going.
Best - and happy New Year
Thomas
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Paying Taxes 2010 - The Global Picture
Paying Taxes 2010 - The Global Picture
This is the fifth year that the World Bank Group’s Doing Business project has included the "paying taxes" indicator. The indicator measures the ease of paying taxes in 183 economies around the world. Besides paying taxes, the Doing Business project provides quantitative measures of regulations in nine other areas: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, trading ac… Continue
This is the fifth year that the World Bank Group’s Doing Business project has included the "paying taxes" indicator. The indicator measures the ease of paying taxes in 183 economies around the world. Besides paying taxes, the Doing Business project provides quantitative measures of regulations in nine other areas: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, trading ac… Continue
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 1:44pm —
Recovery awaits
The writing is on the wall: the world’s greatest economic crisis in seven decades is over and the world is going into recovery. Jordan cannot and will not be left behind. We should have never been adversely affected, and we should quickly start to recover.
The fact that the world did not suffer as great a depression as initially envisioned is due to strategic and courageous actions and fixes taken by world economic leaders.
Inaction on the home front brought Jordan into disarray. The economic… Continue
The fact that the world did not suffer as great a depression as initially envisioned is due to strategic and courageous actions and fixes taken by world economic leaders.
Inaction on the home front brought Jordan into disarray. The economic… Continue
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 6:22am —
Getting enabled
I do no longer care what the government should or should not do. I know that Jordanians can do it alone, as individuals (not as institutions), if they follow their ideas and dreams.
Development economists have long written about enablers: institutions in society that make it easier for potential and actual producers to partake in the market economy. There is no greater enabler than government in a society.
Good policies: spur action by continuously seeking to create opportunities; remove medio… Continue
Development economists have long written about enablers: institutions in society that make it easier for potential and actual producers to partake in the market economy. There is no greater enabler than government in a society.
Good policies: spur action by continuously seeking to create opportunities; remove medio… Continue
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 5:22am — 5 Comments
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Deena, the government is working on passing the Decentralisation Law which is envisioned to do what you have stated: localising the decision making process for communal issues in an effort to have the Lower House focus on national concerns and pri...
email response today from Minister Irani:
I would like to express my pleasure to see more and more active sites in Jordan tackling important issues (especially environmental ones) for Jordan. I hope more and more will be in Arabic. I come from ci...
As much as we love to rant about how useless our parliamentarians are (and they are), they are too easy a scapegoat to be blamed alone. Even the idea of the “one person – one vote” law being the problem is an oversimplification.
The core problem ...
عمان - شباب الدستور - عبير هشام أبو طوق.
رعى وزير التنمية السياسية موسى المعايطة في السابع من شهر تشرين الثاني الحالي فعاليات المؤتمر الوطني للشباب وإصلاح السياسات الذي نظمه مركز الأردن الجديد للدراسات بالتعاون مع مبادرة الشراكة الشرق الأوسطية في...
Sorry I realised I have the wrong website for the Jordan Parliament Monitor:
its www.jpm.jo
here are a few links to some key reports:
Jordan Opinion Poll " Parliament and the Electoral Law" April 2009: the report provides data on electoral behav...
Mohammad Azraq and Amahl Khouri interview the Aramram.com team about their activities and projects
Agreed. Give people choice. We shouldn't expect a shift in the tribal mentality that soon, but to go around that problem ppl should be given the choice to elect @ the local and the national level. Also, ppl seem to forget that neither the governme...
3a rasi abu 7maid lovely comics! keep em coming
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