Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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The Government of
Jordan also invested
heavily in education,
so that when the
agricultural reforms
came, the labor force
was better able to
adapt to changes and
benefit from
opportunities
shows that most
young men and
women were literate
in 1979, although a
gender gap persisted.
Today nearly all
young people in
Jordan are literate.
In addition to the policies already mentioned, and in conjunction with other events, a
broad set of policies that included social safety nets resulted in a steady decline in extreme
poverty. shows the shares of the population living on less than US$ 2 per day in
Jordan and MENA. 188
188 For more on social safety nets in MENA, see Silva, Levin, and Morgandi (2013).
FIGURE 69: YOUTH LITERACY IN JORDAN
Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank 2014h).
FIGURE 70: PERCENT OF POPULATION LIVING ON LESS THAN US$ 2 PER
DAY IN JORDAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank 2014h).