Sentence examples for level of subsistence from inspiring English sources

That means that 14 million people are still living at this low level of subsistence.

The first concerns their level of subsistence, long deemed to have been one of chronic scarcity and want.

Fernando, one of only two tribe members to work outside the reserve, is convinced of the kambô's value, and adamant that the medication, if used by others, can improve a tribal economy that is currently at the level of subsistence.

But in the developing world, throwing out food because of inadequate refrigeration isn't just annoying, it's a devastating and irreparable economic blow that keeps farmers trapped at the level of subsistence and threatens food security.

If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not.

In consequence, we would expect that the level of subsistence degradation decreases with increasing distance to populated areas [13, 14].

Figure 3 ilustrates how CPGLM predicted levels of subsistence wood extraction declines with increasing distance.

High rates of unemployment coupled with low levels of subsistence agriculture have resulted in a community largely reliant on migrants' remittances and government sponsored social grants both of which might be interrupted by an AIDS-related death (Case and Menendez, 2007; Collinson, 2009; Schatz and Ogunmefun, 2007; Twine et al., 2007).

This point finds resonance in Ellen's discussion of the symbiosis between level of effort, subsistence techniques and consumption needs, as she explains, 'people generally choose the techniques which yield a given return with minimum effort rather than the maximum yield for a given outlay of effort, unless they are under great nutritional stress' (Ellen [1994]: 219).

But outsiders who know Iraq well say that the sanctions -- by reducing many Iraqis to levels of bare subsistence and adding to Mr. Hussein's formidable powers that of bestowing scarce necessities -- have strengthened, not weakened, Iraq's ruler.

We can highlight in Table 1 three key parameters: the elasticity of substitution between input factors in home production ((rho )), the subsistence level of market-produced goods ((bar{c}^m)), and the subsistence level of home-produced goods ((bar{c}^h)).