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Will artists and their products suffer the downturn?
Started Nov 30
The cost of delaying policy
Started Nov 23
ضعف الأداء وتقاعس القرار
Started Nov 22
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And Dubai is not the center of the universe :)
I've been fascinated by the Dubai World communication fiasco. And that's all it is. Investments fault on their debts time and time again, banks reschedule loans, and visionary investors work on the d...
According to the Constitution only emergency laws should be passed as temporary laws when the parliament is not in session. One has to remember that 'reforming" the tax law is not an emergency and has been met with many failed attempts as it was p...
الوطني لحقوق الانسان: المطالبة بتعديل نظام الصوت الواحد واستبداله بالنظام الانتخابي المختلط
(التحالف الوطني) يدعو لإنشاء هيئة عليا مستقلة ودائمة للانتخابات
طالب الحكومة باعتماد النظام المختلط وتوزيع للدوائر اكثر عدالة
إعادة النظر بتقسيم ا...
Just a short note, (shorter this time since we seem to be in agreement): The price of the vehicle is part of the problem, and hence “another reason”, as stated in my comment. The one observed car is not a rule or basis for generalization. In publi...
Dear Tamer;
"Minkom youalla Aleikom": Is it not the cast votes of voters in the US that brought us the lowest IQ US President ever and dishevelled state of world affairs, costly wars and almost the demise of the global financial system? Yet the v...
Moreover, just read this: the Arab Bank stated that its exposure to the Dubai debt crunch is US$100 million, hardly worth a mention given the arab bank's financial resources and assets. So, back to my main message: we need not to worry too much, p...
Dear Khalid;
Mr Minister you are not the problem and definitely a solution on your own. I am personally glad that in this cabinet of ministers at least one minister did not need to be trained on the job; and that is you and it really, really show...
Thanks Yusuf for the analysis, I was just trying to see if you have written anything on the subject as you are one of the few honest and transparent economists around!
I agree with you that the Jordanian banks are more prudent than necessary, sti...
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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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- Past lives: Assistant Marketing Director (Jordan); Personnel Adviser (Aramco-Saudi Arabia); Assistant Professor (University of Oklahoma, Oklahoima City Community College, Texas A&M Univeristy, Mu'ta Univ-Jordan); Privatization Economist (Min of Telecom, Jo); National Competitiveness Team director, international trade specialist, aid coordination director (Min of Planning-Jo); Director General Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC-Jo), Industrial Policy Adviser (EJADA), UNDP Res Rep (Kuwait), CEO (JIB-Jo), CEO (JAED).
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Yusuf Mansur's Blog
Jordan is not Dubai
Two years ago, it would have been odd to use such a title for a column here. But at least for this week, it is most opportune to remind us all that Jordan is not Dubai.
Having said this, we should not write off the Dubai economy, which this analyst believes will rise again.
Dubai, which for over a decade has been making headlines as the model envied worldwide, is back in the limelight, but this time for a different reason: the UAE government asked creditors of Dubai World, a government-backed… Continue
Having said this, we should not write off the Dubai economy, which this analyst believes will rise again.
Dubai, which for over a decade has been making headlines as the model envied worldwide, is back in the limelight, but this time for a different reason: the UAE government asked creditors of Dubai World, a government-backed… Continue
Posted on December 1, 2009 at 8:40am — 5 Comments
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 —
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And Dubai is not the center of the universe :)
I've been fascinated by the Dubai World communication fiasco. And that's all it is. Investments fault on their debts time and time again, banks reschedule loans, and visionary investors work on the d...
Good Info laith, But you know what, I don't even have 50jd, Owning a car is a dream until now.
How can the government encourage banks to give low interest rates to hybrid car buyers? Maybe they can even be motivated to do 50% financing at zero interest for the first year.
It's really a cycle that will power itself eventually. As people see more hybrids on the road, they will feel more confident making that decision.
As for buying one, I happened to talk to several salesmen who import them and I know you can get a ...
I really love that Hybrid cars are getting popular in jordan, I'm seeing them a lot these days and i wish they spread even more, I'm already converted by i need cash to buy a car, LOL!
According to the Constitution only emergency laws should be passed as temporary laws when the parliament is not in session. One has to remember that 'reforming" the tax law is not an emergency and has been met with many failed attempts as it was p...
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