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Jordan TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
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Figure 9. Transportation System, 1989
An underdeveloped system of transportation and communications
for many years impeded Jordanian economic development, hampering in
particular efforts to attract foreign direct investment and to
conduct transit trade. The government lavished spending on
transportation and communication facilities in the late 1970s and
early 1980s. By 1989 in many respects Jordan had surpassed its Arab
neighbors in such facilities. Most such development, however, has
been confined to a narrow north-south corridor between Amman and Al
Aqabah.
Data as of December 1989
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