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Jordan 2013 Budget Targets Projects, But Also Austerity
 
Jordan’s 2013 draft budget will focus on development projects, while maintaining the austerity drive which began in 2012. But this is not expected to prove easy – last year the government ended with a high fiscal deficit, brought about by the increased cost of imported energy to replace cheaper Egyptian gas supplies to the kingdom. 
 
The Jordanian...