Abstract

The research aims to analyze the level of economic growth trends and the impact of some of the monetary and financial factors affecting it in Jordan based on annual data for the rate of economic growth as a depended variable and a number of independent variables as (external loans, trade openness, foreign direct investment, government capital expenditure, money supply , exchange rate) for a series of time stretching from 1987 until 2013, and it found during the research that the behavior of the change in the rate of economic growth has been uneven during the period under study and characterized by the presence of sharp fluctuations in five years, on the other hand, the growth rate was negative in five years , In addition was marked by growth rates fragmented to a large extent and the extent of a vast, it turns out that there is a positive correlation relationship and proportions medium between each of the (trade openness, foreign direct investment, government capital expenditure, money supply, exchange rate) with the rate of economic growth, while the inverse correlation and negative among foreign loans and the rate of economic growth, in addition to that it has been (external loans, money supply) negative impact on the economic growth rate, while the (trade openness, foreign investment direct, government capital expenditure, exchange rate) positive impact on the economic growth rate.