Jordan’s Unique Approach: Mega Projects

During the 1960s the newly independent Arab countries were embarking on major hydraulic, road and energy projects with the support of the USSR (the Aswan Dam in Egypt and the Euphrates Project in Syria). Meanwhile, Jordan developed a major project with U.S. aid; the King Abdullah Canal, designed to provide agricultural work for tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the fertile Jordan River valley (fig. X.1). During the 1990s, the country developed ambitious initiatives in renewable ene..