Is Jordan ready for more interest rate rises?

Visiting research fellow at the Business School's Institute of Banking and Investment, Dr Mohammad Alhadab, has written an article published by the Jordan Times.

Portrait of Mohammad Alhadab

 

Visiting research fellow at the Business School's Institute of Banking and InvestmentDr Mohammad Alhadab, has written an article published by the Jordan Times on how the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has recently followed the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and raised the interest rate four times since December 2016.

In the article entitled ‘Is Jordan economy ready to cope with more interest rate hikes?’ Dr Alhadab comments: "Overall, raising the interest rate would lead for sure to strong Jordanian dinar but at the expense of many other side effects."

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