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basic needs

noun

basic needs

noun
1

The absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being, usually in terms of consumption goods.

  • Who then should determine basic needs? The answer seems to be the following: “The unequivocal answer is that the people themselves should decide on the scope, content and priority of their own basic needs”.2013, Sam Cole, Henry Lucas, Models, Planning and Basic Needs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 43:

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