Jordan

Although the government has not yet passed the Social Security Cooperation (SSC) law, the planned changes have sparked a keen debate among business leaders and the public. The new law proposes a number of reforms, including plans to increase the age of early retirement and fixing an upper limit for pensions. If passed, the SSC is likely to be unpopular with the Jordanian public, which is a risk to political stability. However, we do not expect any large scale protests or riots as the Kingdom scores a good seven out of ten in the public unrest category of our

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