Certainly. Thank you.
Jordan is a country that suffers from significant unemployment. There is a wide gap between official figures and estimates. Furthermore, it has an extremely low participation of women in the work force. It's just about the same rate as Saudi Arabia, for example, which is low for the region, and the region is very low for the world.
Jordan can use some economic activity to provide work for its citizens. The qualified industrial zones came up after the Jordan-Israel peace agreement in 1994 and were meant as a vehicle whereby Jordan would provide the workers, others would provide the capital, and the United States would perhaps provide the market. However, this has not actually benefited Jordanian workers. The majority of workers in these qualified industrial zones are from Asian countries. Jordanian businessmen have turned to Asia, Bangladesh, China, Indian, Sri Lanka, and other countries to hire cheap labour.