Basic Needs

The basic needs approach is one of the major approaches to the measurement of absolute poverty in developing countries. It attempts to define the absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being, usually in terms of consumption goods. The poverty line is then defined as the amount of income required to satisfy those needs. The 'basic needs' approach was introduced by the International Labour Organization's World Employment Conference in 1976. "Perhaps the high point of the WEP was the World Employment Conference of 1976, which proposed the satisfaction of basic human needs as the overriding objective of national and international …

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World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the cost of humanitarian …

estimating how much could be saved on aid for basic needs consumption by enabling refugees from Sudan 4 uses the existing data to explore how the basic needs refugees are covered from own-income. Sections 2019). They allow households to cover their basic needs, invest in education and health, reduce child allowing refugees to work saves on assistance for basic needs under various scenarios of economic participation International Poverty Line is used to cost Global Basic Needs (World Bank and UNHCR 2024). As this note focuses


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

location, is clean, safe and at a minimum meets the basic needs of workers, taking local cultural factors into


RAND Corporation · 20 March 2024 English

Since the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline—the national mental health emergency hotline—launched in 2022, an area of focus has been 988/911 interoperability : the existence of formal protocols and procedures …

be linked to services, such as counseling, basic needs, and other community resources; and then (3) obtaining


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia's development trajectory through the lens of the country's vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia's development risks and opportunities, models various …

on forests and natural wealth to meet their basic needs and where ecosystem services are integral to while ensuring all Liberians have access to basic needs and opportunities to thrive. Founded in 1847


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia's development trajectory through the lens of the country's vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia's development risks and opportunities, models various …

households depend on the forest to meet their basic needs. Ensuring the ongoing provision of vital ecosystem dependent on forests for their livelihoods and basic needs. About 70 percent of forest-proximate households


ACAPS · 20 March 2024 English

AFGHANISTAN Briefing note15 March 2024 Anticipated impact of delayed and extreme winter precipitation KEY PRIORITIES CRISIS IMPACT OVERVIEW The combination of late and intense rainfall, lower-than-average seasonal snowfall, and higher-than-average …

support was extremely limited, and access to basic needs and services restricted for over half of the


PPIC: Public Policy Institute of California · 20 March 2024 English

⊲ The poverty rate rose from 11.7% in fall 2021 to 13.2% in the first quarter of 2023, according to the California Poverty Measure (CPM), a research effort by PPIC …

families with less than half the resources to meet basic needs—remained essentially the same (3.3%–3.4%). Poverty


IPC: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification · 19 March 2024 English

From mid-March to mid-July, in the most likely scenario and under the assumption of an escalation of the conflict including a ground offensive in Rafah, half of the population of …

fluctuate and remains insufficient for meeting the basic needs of the overall population. Severe limitations increasingly including extreme deprivation of basic needs. inhibit the transport, distribution, and As stabilize their including extreme deprivation of basic needs. food consumption patterns. Due to scarce food of governorates in early 2024. This decrease basic needs. in access is likely due to the onset of major wild food availability. extreme deprivation of basic needs, extreme overcrowding, and increased Compared


WHR: World Happiness Report · 18 March 2024 English

As the global population of older adults support the well-being of people living with continues to rise, the number of people living with dementia and their care partners. [...] One …

well-being of people living with support the basic needs of autonomy, competence, dementia. A critical


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 18 March 2024 English

Arguably, the financial incentives linked to to win the goodwill of the international community and even to appeal to certain demographics, such illicit markets are too large – and too …

structured engagement strategy to address the basic needs of the Afghan people, cooperation on issues affecting counter-narcotics efforts are linked to addressing the basic needs of the Afghan people through livelihoods programmes aid to flow into the country to support the basic needs of the population, the delivery of aid was complicated


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