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Dr. Hashim Al-Ali, Mukhallad Omari, Orouba AlSabbagh: The Jordanian sectoral linkages, leading
sectors and import leakages

demand. At the same time they purchase the products of a considerable number of other

industries (sectors) productions in order to produce their outputs. For Jordan the key sectors are:

 Construction
 Iron and Steel

 Plastic Products

 Mining
 Electricity
 Paper and Paper Products

 Poultry and Eggs Products

 Painting Industry
 Water

 Air Transport
 Telecommunications

The most interesting aspect of the above list is the appearance of iron and steel industry

products and paper and paper products which, compared with the other sectors there, are

relatively underdeveloped sectors and thus offers considerable potential in any growth strategy

and future investment plans.

Furthermore, and as mentioned above, there is an economically viable and important remark

that worth mentioning at this conjuncture, that measuring key sector in this way may caters

inadequately for the capital goods sectors, such as machinery and equipments, motor vehicles,

electrical machinery, transport equipment, and general engineering because these sectors sell their

output to investment, which is part of the final demand in input-output tables, and hence do not

figure significantly in these measures as they depend on intermediate flows. However, the adopted

techniques and the quantitative tool to identify the leading sectors in the economy are quite viable

from economic development and strategic planning point of view. Significantly, the measurement

of linkages and delineating the leading and potential growth sectors, would, undoubtedly, assist the

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