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BUDGETS AND REVENUES

Jordanian Deficit and Government Borrowing Up Sharply

The monthly statistical bulletin (for June 1987) of the Central Bank of Jordan, which was recently published, gives details of a sharp increase in the government's fiscal deficit and its reliance on spiralling local borrowing in 1987. The deficit for the first quarter of 1987 is JD39.3mn.3mn ($118mn), more than double the deficit for the equivalent period in 1986, when it stood at...