The Impact of Government Expenditures, Taxes On Economic Growth in Jordan

American Based Research Journal, Vol. 7 Issue 12, December 2018

7 Pages Posted: 18 May 2020

See all articles by Omar Mohammad Abad Alkasasbeha

Omar Mohammad Abad Alkasasbeha

University Sultan Zainal Abidin - Faculty of Economics & Management Sciences

Nazatul Faizah Haron

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Ali Ibrahim Saleem Abueid

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: 2018

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of taxes and government expenditures on economic growth in Jordan using a time series data for the period 1970-2017.Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was adopted as the dependent variable while Taxes (T) and government expenditure (GE) represents the independent variables. In addition, this study used Auto-regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL), the unit root tests Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillip-Perron (PP) for the analysis .The study found that the taxes and government expenditure at the aggregate level have a significant positive impact on economic growth.

Keywords: Economic Growth, Government Expenditure, Taxes

Suggested Citation

Alkasasbeha, Omar Mohammad Abad and Haron, Nazatul Faizah and Abueid, Ali Ibrahim Saleem, The Impact of Government Expenditures, Taxes On Economic Growth in Jordan (2018). American Based Research Journal, Vol. 7 Issue 12, December 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3581704

Omar Mohammad Abad Alkasasbeha (Contact Author)

University Sultan Zainal Abidin - Faculty of Economics & Management Sciences ( email )

Malaysia

Nazatul Faizah Haron

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Ali Ibrahim Saleem Abueid

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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