تقدير الحجم الأمثل للإنفاق الحكومي الجاري في الأردن : دراسة تطبيقية للمدة 2004-2017

Abstract EN

The issue of the optimal size of government spending is one of the topics that aroused the interest of researchers.

That most countries take government spending as a major tool to achieve their economic and social goals and is governed by the general principle of achieving the greatest social benefits with the least amount of government spending.

The research aims to estimate the optimal volume of current government expenditure, which maximizes the economic growth rates in Jordan during the period 2004-2017 by using the self-regression model with distributed slowdowns (ARDL).

The optimum size of current government spending in Jordan amounted to 27.61% as a percentage of GDP.

It is less than the average government spending of 29.24 % and any increase in this volume will reflect negatively on the economic growth rates.