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By Micah Halpern
Sunday October 17, 2010 I've Been Thinking: Jordan's King Abdullah spoke at a technology conference in Jordan yesterday. Abdullah blames Jordan's slow tech growth on the tensions in the Middle East. His thesis is that if there was a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians, his economy would grow. The Jordanians recently invested $2.2 billion in high tech - and they want to see an immediate return on the investment. Yahoo recently bought a Jordanian company called Maktoob, the largest Arab on line information company. There are 3 huge mistakes in Abdullah's analysis. The reason Jordan's economy is in the tubes is that it has not been infused with any real creativity - instead, it is heavily control by the monarchy. Abdullah is as wily as he is smart, but here, he has created a recipe for failure. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=halpern%2C+micah 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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