This article is carried out through an analysis of the influence crude oil prices on standard living in Nigeria by using additional variables as supporters, such income, inflation, and exchange rates. According to data availability, utilization used this study annual time series from 1981-2019. The main findings are: (1) there a long-term equilibrium connection among series. (2) price has negat...

OBJECTIVES To analyse differences in smoking behaviour and smoking expenditures among low and high income households in China and the impact of smoking on standard of living of low income households in China. METHODS About 3400 urban and rural households from 36 townships/districts in southwest China were interviewed in 2002. Cross tabulations and regression analysis were used to examine the ...

• Canada’s standard of living relative to the United States as well as the Canadian-U.S. dollar exchange rate have both declined over the 1990s. This coincident occurrence has led some observers to maintain that these two key economic variables are intimately and causally related. Indeed, they argue that Canada’s flexible exchange rate is responsible for the relative fall in the standard of liv...

Height data of North Korean escapees are analyzed to assess changes in their biological standard of living. In contrast to the population of South Korea, as well as to that of most of the rest of the world, North Koreans did not experience an increase in physical stature during the second half of the 20th century. The divergence between the height of North- and South-Koreans began among the bir...