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III. Instill International
Competitiveness
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Status |
Meaning |
Count |
 |
Achieved |
2 |
 |
Never Implemented |
6 |
 |
In progress/partially implemented |
1 |
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Recommendation 1: |
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| Empower JCN to drive the activities of the
MOP's Competitiveness Unit and to serve as the primary proponent for
competitiveness in the new economic management approach as may be created
pursuant to Strategy Two above. |
| Priority Ranking: |
Starting Date: |
| Immediate |
01-Jan-00 |
| Actors: |
Completion Date: |
| Jordan business associations and the MOPs Competitiveness
Unit on the establishment of JCN; MOP on the amendment of MOP regulations to
empower JCN with respect to the Competitiveness Units management |
30-Jun-00 |
| Benchmark 1 |
Status: |
|
JCN established by the private sector with seven-person
board consisting of five persons from the private sector, one from the MOP's
Competitiveness Unit, and one from the educational community. |
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Benchmark 2 |
Status: |
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Number of JCN meetings and forums held, publications issued, Web sites
established, etc. |
|
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Benchmark 3 |
Status: |
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Amended MOP regulations empowering the JCN to oversee the management of the
MOP's Competitiveness Unit published. |
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Recommendation 2: |
|
| Convey sense of urgency about international
competitiveness as one of the critical issues facing Jordan. |
| Priority Ranking: |
Starting Date: |
| Immediate |
01-Jan-00 |
| Actors: |
Completion Date: |
| JCN |
30-Jun-00 |
| Benchmark 1 |
Status: |
|
Competitiveness communications campaign designed and
implementation ongoing. |
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Recommendation 3: |
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| Design new system of measurable standards to
track Jordan's competitive position over time. |
| Priority Ranking: |
Starting Date: |
| Immediate |
01-Jan-00 |
| Actors: |
Completion Date: |
| JCN |
30-Jun-01 |
| Benchmark 1 |
Status: |
|
New system to track Jordan's competitive position
published. |
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Recommendation 4: |
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| Implement competitiveness-related change in
public and private sector entities. |
| Priority Ranking: |
Starting Date: |
| Medium term |
01-Jan-00 |
| Actors: |
Completion Date: |
| JCN, MOPs Competitiveness Unit |
30-Jun-01 |
| Benchmark 1 |
Status: |
|
Number of formal linkages with public (e.g. educational
institutions) and private sector entities (e.g. business associations and
private firms) |
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Benchmark 2
|
Status: |
|
Number of documentable changes within public and private sector entities |
|
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Recommendation 5: |
|
| Implement new system of measurable standards to
track Jordan's competitive position. |
| Priority Ranking: |
Starting Date: |
| Immediate |
01-Jan-00 |
| Actors: |
Completion Date: |
| MOPs Competitiveness Unit |
01-Jan-01 |
| Benchmark 1 |
Status: |
|
Improvement in agreed measures of competitiveness within
an agreed time frame. |
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Benchmark 2 |
Status: |
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Steadily improve Jordan's competitiveness ranking as determined annually by
the World Economic Forum so that Jordan will rank number one among the
nations of the Middle East and North Africa by the end of 2003, and rank in
the top 10 percent of all nations measured by the end of 2010. |
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