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Expenditure of the Federal Government of Nigeria: Effect on the Standard of Living of her Citizens

Using the Autoregressive Distribute Lag (ARDL) and Granger Causality approach, we re-examined how the standard of living of the citizens are affected by the expenditure pattern of the Federal Government of Nigeria from 1981 to 2018.The outcome of the study based on data applied revealed that government expenditure has significant effect on the standard of living of her citizens.To our dismay, this is not the reality on ground as the level of poverty in country is high: the rich are getting richer, whereas the poor are getting poorer.There are deaths of basic infrastructures coupled with abando…