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Business > Foreign Business
World Bank, Jordan use flawed formula for aid to kingdom, excluding some poor people
By Associated Press
Jun 14, 2023 12:14 am
'Many people in Jordan are not getting financial support because their hardships don't fit an algorithm's rigid model of what poverty should look like,' said Amos Toh, senior technology and human rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.
The Hashemite kingdom that celebrated a glittering royal wedding this month is also facing rising poverty. The World Bank said the poverty rate in Jordan — the percentage of those without enough money to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter — rose from 14 percent in 2010 to nearly 16 percent in 2019.

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