The effect of good governance on happiness in a selection of MENA countries: panel distribution breaks Autoregressive distributed lag (Panel ARDL)JEL Classification: C23,I38

One of the important goals of today's societies is to achieve a happy society. A happy society leads to improvement of sufficiency and satisfaction with life, improvement of growth and economic development. In this regard, one of the factors affecting happiness is governance indicators, so the purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of governance indicators on happiness in a selection of countries in the Middle East and North Africa region in the period of 2006-2020 using the autoregressive distributed interval of panel distribution failures. (ARDL) is The studied countries are divided into two groups of high-income and low-income countries in three models. According to the research results in the first model for countries with per capita GDP and efficiency, the government has led to an increase in happiness. In low-income countries, there is a negative relationship of 0.84 between GDP growth per capita and happiness index. In the second model, for high-income countries, there is a negative and significant relationship between indicators of responsibility and political stability with happiness. For low-income countries, the responsibility of the negative effect and effectiveness of the government has a positive and significant effect on happiness. In the third model, for countries with high GDP, the quality and supervision of the government leads to an increase in happiness, and corruption leads to a decrease in happiness. For low-income countries, the quality of government supervision has led to a decline in happiness. Therefore, by improving good governance indicators, governments can increase people's happiness and their satisfaction with life.
 Governance, Happens, ,Mena, Panel ARDL