Saqqaf participates in ‘Post-COVID-19 Jordanian Economy’ conference that highlights lessons from pandemic, areas for reform

Attending the “Post-COVID-19 Jordanian Economy” conference, Lower House Speaker Abdulmunim Oddat said on Saturday that the Kingdom has learned a lot since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 
The COVID-19 pandemic has enabled Jordan to “differentiate between available logistic potential and the real potential required for crisis management”, Oddat said.
Social Security Investment Fund (SSIF) CEO Kholoud Saqqaf said that the fund has faced many challenges resulting from several companies’ closures, which affected the SSIF’s investments.
Saqqaf said that the fund’s total assets exceeded JD12 billion in the first half of 2021 compared with JD11.2 billion during the same period of 2020. He added that SSIF income has witnessed a 24.5 per cent growth to JD313 million until the end of June 2021 compared with about JD215 million in the January-June period of 2020.
MP Khalid Abu Hassan, head of the Lower Chamber’s Economy Committee, called for supporting the private sector as a pillar in the recovery of the economy and the public life.

Abu Hassan added that the public sector will be suffering and unable to generate jobs and provide sustainable development, which points to the importance of private sector cooperation.