AMMAN —
Minister of Investment Khairy Amr stressed the importance of Jordan's
development and industrial zones, which seek to create job opportunities
countrywide, calling on examining the challenges facing the investment
environment.
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According to a
statement by
Jordan Investment Commission (JIC) Wednesday, carried by the
Jordan News Agency, Petra, Amr said the ministry is working to study all
challenges facing these zones, adding that field visits and periodic meetings
are held with investors to learn about their plans that contribute to expanding
and enabling their investments.
This effort also
aim to launch partnership with the public and private sectors to find solutions
for investment challenges with the aim of encouraging investors to expand and
attract more new investments, Amr said at two separate meetings with the CEOs of
the
Jordan Industrial Estates Co, Omar Juwaid, and the Maan Development Company,
Ayman Sharari.
Amr also stressed
the need to intensify promotional efforts aimed to attract more new
investments, pointing to the government's keenness to implement the Royal
vision by providing an attractive investor environment by following up on
investment projects and identifying the investors' needs and providing
practical solutions to any related obstacles.
For his part,
Juwaid praised the
Ministry of Investment's efforts aimed to find solutions to
these zones' challenges.
Jordan, he said, is
an "attractive and competitive" investor environment, adding in 2021,
the industrial estates attracted about 120 new investments and expanded existing
investment projects, with a value at a bout JD93 million, which are expected to
provide 3,100 new job opportunities.
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