{"id":359182,"date":"2024-01-11T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/jordan-expected-to-grow-2-6-in-2024-imf-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:11:10","slug":"jordan-expected-to-grow-2-6-in-2024-imf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/jordan-expected-to-grow-2-6-in-2024-imf-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan expected to grow 2.6% in 2024, IMF says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Jordan\u2019s economic activity is expected to maintain the same growth rate recorded last year, 2.6%, this year and accelerate to 3% a year from 2025 to 2028. Inflation, in turn, is expected to close 2024 at 2.7%, fall to 2.4% in 2025, and maintain an annual rate of 2.5% from 2026 to 2028. The projections were unveiled in a statement released this Thursday (11) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which also confirmed that the institution\u2019s board approved a new four-year arrangement transfer of USD 1.2 billion to the Arab country. <em>Pictured above, a shopping street in the city of Salt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the IMF said \u201cadept policies\u201d and support from international partners helped Jordan overcome several economic shocks, maintain the stability of its macro economy and access to markets, and strengthen social support initiatives. The country has recently been a destination for millions of refugees from neighboring nations.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF said some of the purposes of the new disbursement are to allow gradual fiscal consolidation, decrease public debt, improve the country\u2019s energy system, and allow currency parity [to the US dollar] to be compatible with the country\u2019s currency policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arrangements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IMF made USD 190 million available for immediate access, and the remainder will be phased over, subject to eight reviews of the agreement between the Fund and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>In the IMF\u2019s statement, the entity\u2019s deputy managing director, Kenji Okamura, said the country had made significant progress in implementing a reform agenda. \u201cBuilding on progress made in recent years, the authorities will continue with a gradual fiscal consolidation \u2013 supported by measures to broaden the tax base and improve tax compliance and spending efficiency \u2013 to place public debt on a steady downward path while creating space for priority social and capital spending,\u201d said Okamura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab country\u2019s economy is projected to sustain its 2023 growth rate this year, according to the Fund\u2019s projections. The IMF approved a new disbursement to support Jordan\u2019s economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":357933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[2780,28576,2781,1988,31606,3055,497,47190,27311,5868,1989,47189,47191],"class_list":{"0":"post-359182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-crescimento","9":"tag-fmi-en-2","10":"tag-growth","11":"tag-imf","12":"tag-inflacao-en","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-jordan","15":"tag-jordan-gdp","16":"tag-jordania-en-2","17":"tag-reformas","18":"tag-reforms","19":"tag-repasse","20":"tag-transfer"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab country\u2019s economy is projected to sustain its 2023 growth rate this year, according to the Fund\u2019s projections. 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