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Jordan plans social spending plans
25 August 2011: The Jordanian cabinet has endorsed a supplementary budget, adding JD584m ($824m) to the kingdom's 2011 spending plans to cover extra social payments and food subsidies to aid the country's poor. The additional sum beyond the JD6.369bn ($8.98bn) of allocated state spending was accrued expenditure to cover public sector pay hikes and a rise in food and energy subsidies.
Source: Ameinfo