The author uses data from the USAID LENS project survey, 2014 and 2015, to examine Jordan’s informal economy and its relationship to newly elected Prime Minister Omar Razzaz’s agenda. She argues that the current Jordanian social contract is too expensive to maintain and that the new government needs a social contract based on a more transparent and inclusive dialogue between state and society. The U.S. Agency for International Development Jordan Local Enterprise Support (USAID LENS) project is implemented by FHI 360.
