Sentence examples for beyond subsistence from inspiring English sources
Over half the locals have no jobs beyond subsistence farming.
More than 80% of the people are thought to have no job, beyond subsistence and barter.
Agriculture is about the only part of the economy untouched, although dates and tomatoes do not provide much beyond subsistence.
San José Calderas, which is tucked away among volcanoes around 40 miles (64km) from Guatemala City, offers little in the way of work beyond subsistence farming of beans, corn and vegetables.
There is little work beyond subsistence farming, and any young person with an ounce of ambition and some money to make the trip heads for the townships and cities of South Africa.
Not only do such imports tend to get stuck in urban centres, rarely reaching rural areas, but subsidies also often make them so cheap that they undercut local supplies.To improve poor farmers' prospects, it is essential to boost their productivity beyond subsistence, so they have something left over to sell, as well as markets to sell it in.
Where oil is the only resource beyond the subsistence economy, that is a recipe for disaster.Sudan's oil has been known for 30 years.
Meanwhile, I would summarize it this way: Markets, property rights, freedom of enterprise, etc., create the material basis for getting beyond mere subsistence, which in turn is a necessary precondition "for organized self-government and modern civil rights".
The Chinese middle class — defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as those with the means to make spending decisions beyond just subsistence — is almost certainly growing: it is now about ten per cent of China's population, and on pace to be forty per cent by 2020.
As a result, contemporary pastoralism should be considered a dynamic lifestyle that has evolved well beyond a subsistence economy.
Rao and Baer [40] and Rao and Min [7] argue that "decent" standards of living should include considerations beyond mere subsistence needs such as access to communication technology and refrigeration as well as education and health services, implying the need for infrastructure build-out in developing nations.
