AMMAN: The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation said that it has received the final payment of US grant, amounting to US$57 million from a total of US$184 million, of the regular US monetary grant it had allocated to support the public budget of 2014.
According to the Petra news agency, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, transferred the amount into the Treasury account. US economic aid committed to Jordan last year reached US$633.2 million, including US$436 million in the form of support for last year’s budget by regular and supplementary US monetary grants and an allocation of some US$197.2 million to support projects and programs in key sectors that are being implemented by USAID and the concerned ministries.
