VOL. XXXIV

NO. 9

3-DECEMBER-1990

Financial and Banking News

Budgets & Revenues

Jordanian Budget Deficit Expected to Increase in 1991

Jordan's draft budget for 1991 projects a deficit of JD317mn, significantlyup on the expected figure for 1990, according to regional press reports. In astatement to parliament on 28 November, Finance Minister Basil Jardaneh saidthat Jordan now hopes to balance its budget in 1995, rather than in 1993, as hadpreviously been expected, and that the economic strategy...