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RSS signed on
March 20, 2005 two Memorandums of Cooperation with
Fiedrich-Ebert-Stiftung-Jordan aiming at encouraging European
investments in Jordan.
Under the firtst memorandum, RSS industrial studies division will carry
out a study on the means to encourage European investments in Jordan.
This study will highlight the reasons preventing the flow of
European investment into Jordan, and will suggest means to encourage
European investment in Jordan.
The study will also investigate the current European investments in
Jordan, specially the motives for these investments to come into Jordan.
It will analyze the current Jordanian investment promotion laws,
regulations, and institutional setup, with a focus on the new proposed
QIZ’s with the EU and study the suggested critiria of these QIZ’s. The
study will identify the major characteristics of the Jordanian economy,
and its main socio-economic challenges and specify the main available
investment opportunities in Jordan.
This study aims at analyzing the socio-economic impact of such
investments with a special attention to the impact on the labour issues
such as: unemployment, social security, Trade Unions, and females
workers. It will analyze the environmental implications of the EU
investments in Jordan and the environmental standards in Jordan in order
to find it was a major factor in the decisions of EU campanies to invest
in Jordan.
According to the second memorandum, RSS industrial studies division will
carry out a study on the impacts of privatizaton on the employment in
Jordan. The study will discuss the effects of privatization on the
employment as well as problems either institutional or organizational
that stand obstacles of utilizing labour force in the privatezed
enterprises in Jordan. Also, it is expected from this study to provide
recommendations to the decision makers to enhance and activate the role
of national Trade Union and engagement in the privatizaton process.
This study will analyze the privatization program in Jordan, privatized
companies, the characteristics (Gender, Education….etc). of labour force
in the privatized enterprises before and after the privatization, the
services provided by the privatized enterprizes from the consumer point
of views and the main problems that face labour in the privatized
companies in Jordan. It will analyze the social impact of privatization
on employment.
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