A recent report issued under the title: “Unemployment in Jordan: Reality, Expectations, and Proposals,” showed that the high unemployment rate in Jordan is an intractable economic problem with dire social impacts, as it affects the lives of a large segment of Jordanian citizens and families scattered in various regions and governorates of the Kingdom.
The report warned of the potential dire economic and social dangers and impacts due to the increasing rise of the unemployment rate curve, especially if economic and investment policies and human resources strategies continued to ignore this phenomenon, indicating the need to study the main reasons behind this phenomenon, and to diagnose the types of unemployment in Jordan by identifying the most prominent characteristics of the unemployed, in order to facilitate the creation of appropriate policies and ways to address and mitigate them.
According to the report, there is the importance of developing economic and investment policies, solutions and appropriate mechanisms to flatten the rapidly increasing unemployment rate curve, taking into account framing the partnership with the private sector and stimulating it in order to increase its capacity and enable it to absorb Jordanian labor.
The report showed that unemployment levels continued to rise for the sixth year in a row, reaching 23 percent in the second quarter of this year, and it is likely to exceed 25 percent by the end of the current year, as a result of the repercussions of the Corona pandemic, which clearly exacerbated the problem due to the global and local closures that led to curb supply and demand together.
Source (Ad-Dustour Jordanian newspaper, Edited)
