663 million in Aid to Jordan, US leads

Jordanian official sources said that total loans and donations offered by Arab and foreign governments and establishments to Jordan in 2000 reached US $ 663.3 million.

These sources added that most of the aid in loans and donations went for the sectors of waters and dealing with waste waters and for purposes of economic adjustment, education, agriculture and services.

In a special report on foreign aids to Jordan sources at the Jordanian ministry of planning said that the US occupied the first position among the donor states to Jordan as it offered US $ 215.6 million from the American government and its" American agency for International development. The report added that the European Union occupied the first position among the multilateral donors and gave US $ 114.25 million and then came the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development in Kuwait to be followed consequently by the Islamic Bank for Development, the world bank and OPEC Fund for international development.