It is important to emphasize following principles: here that the requested economic blueprint should be based on the 4. Preserving macro-financial stability and developing financial policies; improving Jordan's business environment; enhancing policies that promote innovation and sectoral development; enhancing local governance and implementing decentralization. 2. Supporting engines of growth; limiting budget deficit; preserving financial and monetary stability; enhancing competitiveness and investment attraction to generate more jobs for Jordanians. 3. Strengthening programmes targeting poverty and unemployment alleviation as weil as consumer protection and channelling subsidies to those who deserve it in order to enhance Jordan’s social safety net in an effort to protect and expand the middle class. 4. Supporting productive and entrepreneurial projects as well as Small and Medium Enterprises, through encouraging competition and preventing monopolies. 5. Elevating the quality of governmental services provided to citizens in various fields in a manner that builds on public sector reform programmes; giving priority to health and education sectors, in addition to training and employment programmes that meet labour market requirements; and assuring the highest levels of equality and justice in providing these services. 6. Ensuring a just distribution of developmental di idends by giving development programmes. priority to governorates’ 7. Devising a comprehensive system to enhance food, water and energy security and its diversification, in addition to expediting the execution of mega projects. Your Excellency Prime Minister, | shall emphasize here the importance of addressing this task with utmost attention and care to achieve feasible working plans, based on a specific time-frame with clear priorities and adopting successive action points, which are assessed in an institutional manner and are binding to governments. | also stress the importance of upholding accountability in measuring progress and achievement and a collective sense of shared responsibility as well as keenness to overcome shortcomings in the future. It is of equal importance, that these directives are handled with the utmost seriousness and avoid laxity in execution, in order to enhance the credibility of the state and all its institutions in addressing citizens’ concerns and assuring the decent standard of living they rightly deserve. Above all, we do not h forthis economic blueprint, upon which we have very high hopes, to be a mere document that gets shelved away, but rather a productive endeavour, with tangible results and a clear time-frame. We face numerous and difficult challenges, but our cherished Jordanian citizens deserve the best we can provide. We are confident that Jordan, empowered by the will of its sons and daughters, will overcome these challenges through team work, diligent efforts and follow-up, aiming to realize our vision for the future of Jordan, Praying to God Almighty to preserve Jordan's pride and prosperity through the hard work of all Jordanians and to help us realize the aspirations of our beloved people. Peace be upon you, God’s mercy and blessings, Abdullah Il ibn Al Hussein Amman, 28 Jumada Al-Awwal 1435 Hijri 29 March 2014 wore Ae