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Dr. Hashim Al-Ali, Mukhallad Omari, Orouba AlSabbagh: The Jordanian sectoral linkages, leading
sectors and import leakages
these efforts have identified the main leading sectors, amongst others, for the purpose of
directing, prioritizing and hence achieving future balanced development in the country. Besides,
it has attempted to quantify and identify the leakage of the national development efforts, and
hence measuring the economic loss as a high proportion of the value-added in the national
economy, by some sectors, due to the importation from the outside world and lack of productive
capacity in some sectors and activities within the economy, which in turn curtails its ability to in
meeting the domestic demand by different sectors.
Having said that, the followings are summary of the main results and findings:
The most significant twelve sectors that characterized with strong backward linkages,
and they are capable for creating structural change in the size of the national economy, due to
their high output and production multipliers, are: Air Transport, Travel, Tour Operators
Services, Fertilizers & Insecticide, Construction, Meat & Fish Products, Dairy products,
Bricks and articles of cement concrete, Other Transport Equipments, Sea Transport &
Ports, Postal Services, Vegetables and Poultry and Eggs sector.
The mostly characterized sectors with high forward linkages, which have the
capabilities to increase their production in appropriate proportions when the total demand on
other sectors in the economy has increased. Moreover, such sectors would have the ability to
change the production patterns and productive capacity of the sectors that using their products as
inputs. These are: Refinery & Refined products, Road Transport, Trade, Banking Sector,
Electricity, Others Services, Crops & Other Agriculture, Business Services, Real estate,
Iron and Steel Industry, Telecommunication Services and Air Transport sector.
There is a, somehow critical, tendency of dependency on the imported intermediate and
raw material inputs of the domestic industries. Such dependency constitutes on average (36.5%)
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