Now, thanks to the generous financial assistance available through the insurance exchanges, families who earn, say, fifty or sixty thousand dollars a year — roughly the median income — can purchase insurance, and peace of mind, without having to forego other essential expenditures.
It is recommended to replace the proposed indicator by a more sophisticated indicator referring to the relation between energy expenditures for electricity and heat of low-income households and the essential expenditures for the essential provision of these types of energy services.
As households cope by compromising essential expenditures, children's rights to education, health, and protection have come under increasing threat.
But, unable to withdraw more than €60 from their shuttered banks, Greeks were cutting back on non-essential expenditure and keeping cash purchases to a minimum.
(11) Household living standard: For countries like China, where there is a culture of a high rate of saving money (53% of total income)[ 19], non-essential expenditure is likely to be distorted by this propensity to save, hence household consumption expenditure is considered as not a good proxy of household economic status[ 20, 21].
Identify non-essential expenditures in your budget, and think about ways to make them cheaper or if you might be able to eliminate some of them altogether.
Our analysis suggests that it represented a small proportion (2.2%) of the essential medicines expenditure [ 3].
We used the standard set of medicines and basic consumables given to open a pharmaceutical depot in Burkina Faso by Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) with the Ministry of Health approval to estimate the proportion of the essential medicines expenditure used to procure injection devices.
"2016 has been a year of sustained growth in consumer outgoings, with the steady rise in expenditure on food and fuel driving a significant increase in overall essential spending," said Robin Bulloch, managing director at Lloyds.
