Ibrahim Saif

By Ibrahim Saif — Issue 2, page 38. Read this article in the interactive edition

War is not an isolated military event whose consequences end at the boundaries of the battlefield. Rather, it generates ripple effects whose repercussions extend to both productive and service sectors. Major wars throughout modern history have demonstrated that economic losses often exceed military losses in both scale and duration. The Second World War destroyed nearly one-third of Europe’s human capital,…

This material was published in the second issue of the Jordanian Politics and Society magazine (JPS). The Jordanian economy has been experiencing a decline in economic growth rates since 2007, the year of the global financial crisis. During the past decade, the growth of GDP has remained limited to 2-3%, compared to approximately 6.5% in 2000-2007. Over the past three…

The article is published in JPS Magazine The general budget is widely considered to be a credible document that a government produces in a year. Typically, the general budget shows revenue collected (tax efforts) from the taxpayers either directly or indirectly. The budget also presents governments’ priorities mirrored in how the collected revenue is dispersed. Historically, Jordan has attempted to…

By Ibrahim Saif — Issue 1, page 38. Read this article in the interactive edition