Setting Up a Business in Jordan

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Jordanian market — a comparatively stable Middle Eastern economy whose genuine institutional resilience and real regional exposure are both worth understanding on their own terms.
This guide covers legal structures, business taxation, company formation, the cost of labor, and immigration routes for executives, investors, and entrepreneurs. Includes a dedicated chapter weighing Jordan’s documented resilience — a fully on-track IMF programme, rising industrial exports, no significant private-sector damage from political violence over the past decade, and growing tourism despite regional tension — against its real exposure to regional shocks, a tourism sector sensitive to conflict nearby, and the pressures of hosting one of the world’s highest refugee populations per capita. An operational checklist and useful contacts round out the guide.
Available in English.