Papers by Mwafaq M . Dandan

Asian development policy review, 2017
During the recent years Jordan has witnessed an increasing awareness of women"s issues. Most the ... more During the recent years Jordan has witnessed an increasing awareness of women"s issues. Most the successive Jordanian governments were publicly committed to integrating women into the development process, and eliminating all types of discrimination against women and could succeeded in much aspect of women"s life, but not on the case of higher education management and top leading posts. therefore this came to critically investigate the women status of women in higher education, to reach this end the study used a descriptive research methodology ,depending in on published data as we as data collected by the researchers from the universities itself. The study found that there is paradoxical situation in Jordanian higher education system, when female students forming more than 50% of the total students enrolled in higher education institutions, we find very few women holding managerial and leadership posts. Contribution/ Originality: This study is one of the few studies which have critically investigated the situation of women in higher education management and leadership positions. The primary contribution of this study is to draw policy makers' attention to the fact that women are underrepresented in higher education governing bodies.

Asian Development Policy Review, 2017
During the recent years Jordan has witnessed an increasing awareness of women"s issues. Most the ... more During the recent years Jordan has witnessed an increasing awareness of women"s issues. Most the successive Jordanian governments were publicly committed to integrating women into the development process, and eliminating all types of discrimination against women and could succeeded in much aspect of women"s life, but not on the case of higher education management and top leading posts. therefore this came to critically investigate the women status of women in higher education, to reach this end the study used a descriptive research methodology ,depending in on published data as we as data collected by the researchers from the universities itself. The study found that there is paradoxical situation in Jordanian higher education system, when female students forming more than 50% of the total students enrolled in higher education institutions, we find very few women holding managerial and leadership posts. Contribution/ Originality: This study is one of the few studies which have critically investigated the situation of women in higher education management and leadership positions. The primary contribution of this study is to draw policy makers' attention to the fact that women are underrepresented in higher education governing bodies.

Asian Economic and Financial Review, 2017
Education is central to human capital capacity-building, and major determinant of economic develo... more Education is central to human capital capacity-building, and major determinant of economic development, as it has long been considered as an important investment both for social and economic development. The Middle East and North African countries have been aware of the importance of education therefore considered it as a key part of their strategies and future planning; enrollments at different levels of education have improved dramatically over the past few decades. This study is an empirical investigation to the impact of different level of education attainment on employment level, labor force participation rate and gender gap of employment. For that purpose the cross section time series or panel data set consisting of 15 countrieswhere the data is comparable -has been taken. Panel data regression analysis has been carried out to find out the magnitude and direction of relationship between dependent and independent variables. Further Hausman test of specification has been applied for the selection between fixed effect model and random effect model. The main finding of this study, that there is negative relationship between educational attainment and male labor participation rate, while it is positive in case of females labor force. The study found also that with the improvement of educational attainment there has been a decrease employment gender gap. This study is one of the few studies which have examined the impact of educational attainment on employment, labor force participation rate and its role in closing the labor market gender gaps in MENA countries.
Financing of education in Jordan 1971 1990
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of public expenditures on economic growt... more The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of public expenditures on economic growth using a time series data on Jordan for the period 1990-2006 using for this purpose the different regression models .The study found that the government expenditure at the aggregate level has positive impact on the growth of GDP which is compatible with the Keynesian's theory, it was also found that the interest payment is proven to have no influence on GDP growth.

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 2014
Globally Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) has come to light as an important tool in the ongoing ... more Globally Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) has come to light as an important tool in the ongoing struggle to make budgets and policies more gender re endorsement of GRB as a valuable tool for engendering budgets and policies all over the world. The government of Saudi Arabia, has been aware of the importance of female education, to fulfil a comprehensive development, it is committed to implement the convention of all kinds of discrimination against women. Since financial resources are one of the most powerful factors to ensure gender quality, the government has realized its urgency through the impact of these budgets on elimination gender inequality, using for this purpose different technical of statistical analysis. This paper found that the government of Saudi Arabia has against female education and could provide equal enrolment opportunity for both gender.
Educational Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Saudi
International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Aug 1, 2013

Problem statement: The question of the funding structure took a great importance in developed cou... more Problem statement: The question of the funding structure took a great importance in developed countries, but it has been neglected in developing countries. Approach: This study came with the aim to examine the effect of the following factors: Volume, assets structure, return on assets and growth rate on the capital structure of the insurance sector companies listed in Amman stock market, which numbered 25 companies which have been in operation between the years 2000 and 2007. Results: The selection of the above mentioned variables have been chosen on a basis of simple and multiple regression where the study shows a significant difference between the company’s special characteristic represented with volume, asset structure and return on assets, growth rate and capital structure. Conclusion/Recommendations: As long as the factors are positive which goes along with many other studies were undertaken by different authors, therefore the scholars advises using leverage to achieve the goal...
Nexus between Economic Growth and Governmetn Expenditure
European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of public expenditures on economic growt... more The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of public expenditures on economic growth using a time series data on Jordan for the period 1990-2006 using for this purpose the different regression models .The study found that the government expenditure at the aggregate level has positive impact on the growth of GDP which is compatible with the Keynesian's theory, it was also found that the interest payment is proven to have no influence on GDP growth.

Educational Attainment of Jordan’s Population and Labor Force
Journal of Social Sciences, 2006
ABSTRACT The analysis of the educational attainment by Gender tells us about the general demand f... more ABSTRACT The analysis of the educational attainment by Gender tells us about the general demand for education and qualitative change both in population and labor force. The term educational attainment used here refers to the actual level of education completed by a person as it is superior to the enrolment ratio - as a proxy for educational attainment - especially for the measurement of the stock of human capital. The study aims at exploring the educational characteristics of population by gender, as compare with that of labor force during the past three decades. Also the study aims at exploring the educational status of female population and labor force and will finding out whether this status has improved or worsened. The study attempts to find out the relation between the educational level of population and the participation rate in the labor force. To achieve the above aims the study employs the descriptive and the analytical statistical methods through some quantitative comparisons for the characteristics of population and labor force .From the analysis of the related data the study revealed an increasing demand for education not in terms of educational enrollment but in terms of actual educational attainment. The study also found that the labor force is much better educated than population while the analysis of educational attainment by gender indicated that the improvement was in favor of female population and labor force.
Journal of Social Sciences, 2008
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