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Jordan is considering issuing Islamic debt, or sukuk, by end of the year to help it cover part of its spiraling budget deficit that has worsened due to the global downturn, finance ministry sources said on Tuesday. They said a Finance Ministry committee was set up to study how to introduce the Islam-compliant paper for the first time in the kingdom.

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