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The Effect of Good Governance on Higher Education in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan for the Period (2000–2011)

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Globally, the rules and regulations of higher education are for the betterment of economies and social uplift. The objective of this study is to develop a link between governance indicators and educational outcomes. The current study proposes a framework covering three broad categories of governance indicators: political governance, economic governance and institutional dimension of governance. These three categories are accompanied by five educational factors: higher education expenditures, higher education enrolment, higher education expenditures per student, literacy rate, scientific and technical journal articles and economic growth. The study covers three countries: Syria, Lebanon and Jordan for the period 2000–2011. The OLS model is employed for estimating the possible links between governance indicators and educational outcomes. The results show conflicting effects of governance on higher education indicators, but in most of the cases, it is not significant.

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration and Finance, International University for Science and Technology (IUST), Daraa, Ghabageb, Syria

    Chadi Azmeh

  2. Faculty of Business Administration, Jinan University, Tripoli, Lebanon

    Chadi Azmeh

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jorge Marx Gómez

  2. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Marie K. Aboujaoude

  3. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Khalil Feghali

  4. Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Tariq Mahmoud

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Azmeh, C. (2017). The Effect of Good Governance on Higher Education in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan for the Period (2000–2011). In: Marx Gómez, J., Aboujaoude, M., Feghali, K., Mahmoud, T. (eds) Modernizing Academic Teaching and Research in Business and Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54419-9_10

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