Basic Needs

Summary of Basic Needs

A code word for official development ASSISTANCE (read this legal term for further details) programs aimed toward the improvement of health care, education, nutrition, and like fundamental services in poorer nations. The basic needs concept has been criticized by some nations as a purely stop-gap welfare approach. These nations confuse basic with immediate needs of survival, while ignoring the capital and productive base necessary for the poorer nation to rise out of poverty and sustain its own national well-being.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)

Basic Needs (in the Human Development Area)

In this context, Basic Needs means: goods and services produced by the public sector (health, education, and in some countries, and housing), and the products are usually purchased from private income (food and clothing).

Concept of Basic Needs (in the Human Development Area)

In this context, Basic Needs means: was the basis for the famous report of the International Labor Organization (ILO), “Employment, growth and basic needs”, in 1976. The basic principle of this concept is that the public policy should aim at ensuring people with the access to social services and commodities.

Uba Approach (unmet Basic Needs Approach) (in the Human Development Area)

In this context, Uba Approach (unmet Basic Needs Approach) means:

one of several methods to measure poverty. It seeks to establish whether households or individuals are satisfying basic needs with the products or services they actually consume. A household or individual is classified as poor if it does not reach the threshold for all or some basic needs.

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See Also

• Economic Development
• Social development

Hierarchical Display of Basic needs

Economics > Economic conditions > Economic development
Social Questions > Social framework > Social situation > Socioeconomic conditions > Living conditions
Social Questions > Social framework > Social situation > Socioeconomic conditions > Quality of life
Social Questions > Construction and town planning > Housing policy > Housing need
Environment > Environmental policy > Water management > Water requirements
Social Questions > Health > Nutrition > Nutritional needs

Basic needs

Concept of Basic needs

See the dictionary definition of Basic needs.

Characteristics of Basic needs

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Translation of Basic needs

• Spanish: Necesidades fundamentales
• French: Besoins fondamentaux
• German: Grundbedürfnisse
• Italian: Bisogni fondamentali
• Portuguese: Necessidades fundamentais
• Polish: Potrzeby podstawowe

Thesaurus of Basic needs

Economics > Economic conditions > Economic development > Basic needs
Social Questions > Social framework > Social situation > Socioeconomic conditions > Living conditions > Basic needs
Social Questions > Social framework > Social situation > Socioeconomic conditions > Quality of life > Basic needs
Social Questions > Construction and town planning > Housing policy > Housing need > Basic needs
Environment > Environmental policy > Water management > Water requirements > Basic needs
Social Questions > Health > Nutrition > Nutritional needs > Basic needs

See also

• Living conditions
• Quality of life
• Housing need
• Water requirements
• Nutritional needs

• Basic requirements
• Essential needs