subsistence needs

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Pension levels are defined in relation to subsistence needs, and are usually pitched considerably below net earnings during the period of paid employment.
The remainder was consumed by the members of the family (and by the animals used on the farm) for their own subsistence needs.
First, we discuss in detail the calibration of two main components of the retirement expenditure : the subsistence needs and the health-care expenditure.
Under these conditions most people's subsistence needs would be met by hunting as long as they all confined their takings to the subsistence level.
The great majority seem to be simple household units where people lived and worked for their subsistence needs.
However, communities in low resource potential areas may have to use resources extensively in order to meet their subsistence needs.
Although all villagers engage in corn-based agriculture, very few of them have enough land to meet all their subsistence needs.
An alternative objective is hence to maximise profit plus labour income taking the subsistence needs of the labour force into account.
In the past, land used to be abundant, and livestock rearing supplemented family income and subsistence needs.
The standard for social assistance is low and covers only subsistence needs.
The property relations of these societies ensured that each member was guaranteed sufficient land to meet subsistence needs.
In other words, their subsistence needs were met partly from their own production and partly from market supply.
The interest of the nobility in maintaining their human assets guaranteed peasant households access to resources sufficient for their subsistence needs, paying manorial dues and meeting tax obligations.
Given the relatively favourable farming conditions, agriculture continues as the dominant means for inhabitants of the zone to meet their subsistence needs and even, in some cases, to generate cash.
Yet most of this agriculture is primitive, migratory, and barely serves to meet subsistence needs.
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