Destitute groups of the population include the elderly, pensioners by and large, whose pensions cannot satisfy basic living needs.

She noted that 2.5 million grandparents say they are responsible for the basic needs of the grandchild living with them.

Consequently, 32 per cent and 20 per cent of Gaza and West Bank households, respectively, are living in extreme poverty, unable to meet their basic needs.

Genes are the basic units of heredity in living organisms.

The National Development Program (Propenas 2000 2004) advocated two strategies to eradicate poverty, namely (a) satisfaction of the basic needs of the poor and protection of families and community groups living in poverty and, (b) assistance to community groups living in structural poverty.

Without these none of the four basic needs can be sustained.

We urgently need to improve basic services and the everyday standard of living.

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

Their biggest and most compelling challenge is to meet citizens basic needs.

It helps people in the poorest countries to meet their basic needs.

For example, all living cells use the same basic set of nucleotides and amino acids.

If anything, those resources should be increased in order to fulfil basic humanitarian needs.

This general overview of the Central African Republic shows that the country does have significant assets which could provide the Central African people with the material conditions required to improve their living standards and satisfy their basic needs.

It is thus urgent to satisfy populations most basic human needs through local development initiatives.

Generally, the Internet is a tool for people whose basic needs are already being met.

A regime that cannot respond to its citizens basic needs has no legitimacy at all.

Women's advancement could only be achieved if women's health needs at basic levels were addressed.

Accelerating development and meeting people's basic needs would go a long way to improving security.

The compilation provides an extensive presentation of the basic socio economic indices and standard of living indicators.

Iraqis expect tangible political and economic progress, particularly in terms of living conditions, jobs and basic services.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

The needs are basic promoting breastfeeding, food supplies for young children, and medical attention for mothers.

Social need is considered the state in which a citizen or family needs aid to overcome social difficulties and meet their living needs.

Poland s economy, close to outright collapse, struggled to meet citizens basic needs, let alone repay foreign loans.

In my house we can't get basic needs such as, No foods, No bread, and Natural gas.

Through the Emergency Shelter Program, homeless persons receive shelter, food and other services to meet basic needs.

Attending to such basic needs in a way that manages scarcities and surpluses regionally has a powerful logic.

Poverty in Africa refers to the lack of basic human needs faced by certain people in African society.

Table 1 Poverty levels, calculated using the unmet basic needs (UBN) method, 1998 2001 (Percentages of the population)

There is a link between purely military action and economic action aimed at meeting the people's basic needs.

Whatever its past successes in maintaining basic living standards, today it is evident that Belarus cannot match its neighbors dynamism.

Higher food prices meant that poor people, already struggling to meet basic human needs, were pushed deeper into poverty.

The basic idea of sovereignty, which still provides a useful constraint on violence between states, needs to be preserved.

In Maslow's pyramid of human needs, the base is made up of basic needs for survival, especially the economic ones, and ends with intellectual, cultural and political needs and values. In society, the same formula is applicable.

Palestinian children continued to be denied an adequate standard of living, basic health care and even access to food and education.

Sacrifice used to involve ransoming the body its pleasures, basic needs, and even vitality for the sake of the spirit.

Even among those employed, 45 per cent do not earn enough to provide for the basic needs of their families.

The program provides for a person's basic needs while encouraging and supporting them in their efforts to become self sufficient.

That is the centrepiece of peacebuilding building peace by building good governance, meeting basic human needs and fostering social harmony.

This violence manifests itself in many different forms women's most basic rights are continually violated their integration into labor market is hindered and their access to health, education, basic sanitation, living accommodations services, etc. is restricted.

This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan s relatively low income level.

Competing groups struggle to stay alive in the face of a shortage of food, water, pasture land, and other basic needs.

India clearly has the basic systems it needs to operate a twenty first century economy in an open and globalizing world.

However, even if most remittances fund consumption, they may still make a valuable contribution towards satisfying basic needs and relieving poverty.

Therefore, desertification ranks among the greatest environmental challenges today and is a major impediment to meeting basic human needs in drylands.