Archive of Location: Jordan

Mapping the Creative Economy In Jordan

Mapping the Creative Economy In Jordan

Mapping the Creative Economy In Jordan

Arts, culture, and the creative economy are inherently diverse, subjective, challenging to define. It’s a sector we’re passionate about! Expectation State and Drosos Foundation are teaming up to carry out a baseline study and map out Jordan's current creative economy ecosystem. We’re collecting comprehensive and inclusive insights in order to promote cooperation and assistance among a variety of communities and social groups. We will focus Read More

Bridging Finance Gaps And Empowering Jordanian SMEs

Bridging Finance Gaps And Empowering Jordanian SMEs

Youth and women can be a driving force for Jordan’s private-sector development and an engine for job creation, provided that the challenges they meet in starting or growing a business are addressed. Expectation State is partnering with the United Nations Read More

Fostering the Growth Of MSMEs In Jordan

Fostering the Growth Of MSMEs In Jordan

Micro and Small-sized Enterprises are an essential driver of employment and economic stability in Jordan. The sector requires assistance to keep businesses afloat, as well as systems-level interventions to address longstanding barriers to MSE resilience, formalisation, and growth. Expectation State Read More

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Informal Livelihoods Advancement Activity (Iqlaa) is a five-year USAID-funded program supporting Jordan's Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). Iqlaع aims to meet the immediate needs of formal and informal MSEs following the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, while building stable foundations from which Read More

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Jordan hosts the second largest proportion of refugees per capita in the world, but their ability to engage in the formal economy can be limited. The nascent field of Refugee Lens Investing is gradually decoding how global investors can better Read More

Growing Opportunities for Jordanian Women Owned and Led Businesses

Growing Opportunities for Jordanian Women Owned and Led Businesses

In 2022, we conducted a Market Study and Positioning Strategy to identify areas for enhancing Jordanian women’s economic opportunities, including entrepreneurship and access to new markets, on behalf of the World Bank and the Government of Jordan.  Over a year Read More

Profiling and Engaging Impact Investors for Jordan

Profiling and Engaging Impact Investors for Jordan

As an asset class and idea, impact investing is growing. Mainstream fund managers have entered the arena, raising awareness about the issues associated with the core tenets of impact investing. While this is great for the industry, it is less Read More

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

The Government of Jordan’s Economic Modernisation vision, launched in June 2022, sets an ambitious direction for achieving sustainable growth and creating job opportunities over the next decade. It requires $30 billion of investment and financing to meet the expected demand Read More