AMMAN — A report issued by the
World Bank on
employment in the MENA region revealed that 59 percent of the total employment
in Jordan is informal, and that 75 percent of private sector employment is also
informal, AmmanNet reported Saturday.
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Insurance expert
Musa Al-Subaihi described the report’s numbers as
shocking, asking, “Have the government and the Social Security Corporation.
read the World Bank report on unorganized employment and what did they do about
it?”
The report provided new evidence on product market regulations
covering policies that encourage or discourage market competition in Egypt,
Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE and the West Bank/Gaza
allowing comparisons within the MENA region and also with 51 countries outside
the region.
The report, published by last May, titled “Jobs Undone: Reshaping
the Role of Governments towards Markets and Workers in the Middle East and
North Africa” indicates another “shocking” fact, which is that 75 percent of
Jordanian private sector employment is informal employment, said Subaihi.
“If this study is accurate, it means that the challenges before us
are great, and that many of our studies and expectations were not based on
correct foundations, and therefore were wrong,” Subaihi wrote on his Facebook
page.
The
report said that most of the region’s economies lack the ability to compete in
the market, and one of the main reasons for this is the state-owned enterprises
that play a dominant role and enjoy preferential treatment, in terms of taxes,
financing and subsidies.
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