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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug

Meaning of "subsistence level" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSISTENCE LEVEL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSISTENCE LEVEL

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Subsistence level is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBSISTENCE LEVEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Subsistence economy

"Subsistence" redirects here. For the Catholic ecclesiological doctrine of Vatican II, see "Subsistit in". A subsistence economy is a non-monetary economy which relies on natural resources to provide for basic needs, through hunting, gathering, and subsistence agriculture. "Subsistence" means supporting oneself at a minimum level; in a subsistence economy, economic surplus is minimal and only used to trade for basic goods, and there is no industrialization. In the history of the world, before the first cities, all humans lived in a subsistence economy. As urbanization, civilization, and division of labor spread, various societies moved to other economic systems at various times. Some remain relatively unchanged, ranging from uncontacted peoples, to poor areas of developing countries, to some cultures that choose to retain a traditional economy. Capital can be generally defined as assets invested with the expectation that their value will increase, usually because there is the expectation of profit, rent, interest, royalties, capital gain or some other kind of return.

Definition of subsistence level in the English dictionary

The definition of subsistence level in the dictionary is a standard of living barely adequate to support life.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSISTENCE LEVEL

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subsidiser
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subsidization
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subsist
subsistence
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSISTENCE LEVEL

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confidence level
energy level
entry-level
eye level
ground level
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water level

Synonyms and antonyms of subsistence level in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «subsistence level» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSISTENCE LEVEL

Find out the translation of subsistence level to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subsistence level from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subsistence level» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生活水平
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nivel de subsistencia
570 millions of speakers

English

subsistence level
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवन यापन के स्तर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مستوى الكفاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прожиточный минимум
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nível de subsistência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবিকা স্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

niveau de subsistance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tahap sara hidup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Existenzminimum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

最低生活水準
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

최저 생계비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tingkat subsistensi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

mức sinh hoạt phí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாழ்வாதார நிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्वाह पातळी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Geçim düzeyi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

livello di sussistenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minimum egzystencji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прожитковий мінімум
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nivel de subzistență
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

επίπεδο διαβίωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

broodlyn
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

existensminimum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eksistensminimum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subsistence level

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE LEVEL»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE LEVEL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subsistence level

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2 QUOTES WITH «SUBSISTENCE LEVEL»

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Norman Borlaug
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
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Charles E. Wilson
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSISTENCE LEVEL»

Discover the use of subsistence level in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subsistence level and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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What's Wrong with a Free Lunch?
These are different from those of either a basic income below or one at subsistence level. In the end, I will defend a subsistence level basic income, in preference to Van Parijs's proposal. Let me begin with the least demanding reform: ...
Philippe van Parijs, Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers, 2001
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Social Security Programs Throughout The World: Europe, 2012
Social pension supplement: Paid if the social pension is less than the minimum subsistence level for people with a disability. The monthly minimum subsistence level for people with a disability is 838 hryvnias. Survivor pension: The insured ...
Social Security Administration (U.S.), 2012
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Human Resource Management
The Subsistence Theory of Wages According to this theory, wages are determined on the basis of subsistence and in the long-run wage rate is equal to the minimum subsistence level. In the short period, if wages rise above the minimum ...
Ashok Khurana, Parveen Khurana, Hira Lal Sharma
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Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective
Virtually the entire structure of social support allowances is based on the subsistence level concept that is used to determine the income ceiling ('n- multiple of the subsistence level'). Social assistance is designed for people ( families) that are ...
Peter Kemp, 2007
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Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During the ...
2. people who do not know that their income is lower than subsistence level and therefore do not know that they have a right to apply for assistance; 3. young people without income who live with relatives with incomes and who do not know  ...
Rebecca Jean Emigh, Iván Szelényi, 2001
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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the ...
At that time, I was hired as a manager by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to implement refugee assistance projects in a series of villages in which the main economic activity was subsistence-level agriculture. My job involved organizing ...
Tony Waters, 2007
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Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing ...
whose productivity and hence wage rate might be less than subsistence level, nor yet that at times in history, and even in the present, there are not isolated cases of people in primitive conditions who have starved to death due to the harsh ...
Walter Block, 2008
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Economic Transformations : General Purpose Technologies and ...
Since the evidence quoted earlier in this chapter makes it clear that the typical European peasant did not live at the biological subsistence level, result 1 is of no further interest. From here on, we assume that the typical peasant family lived ...
Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, Clifford T. Bekar, 2005
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The Working of Econometric Models
We took the average of the real consumption per capita for the three lowest income groups (weighted by the numbers of samples) as the subsistence level of real consumption and calculated it for the years 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962, ...
M. Morishima, 1972
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The Demise of a Rural Economy: From Subsistence to ...
beyond one agricultural year or 365 days, the lower limit of the subsistence level is determined by dividing the total product (again omitting seed costs) by 365 days, to find a minimum product per day allocation, and then multiplying by the ...
Stephen Gudeman, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE LEVEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subsistence level is used in the context of the following news items.
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Can India Bridge The 'Innovation Gap'?
India can innovate if Indians emerge from subsistence levels and the Modi government succeeds in facilitating the necessary environment. Prime Minister ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
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Tweak tax to encourage water conservation
As for high-volume consumers, the water conservation tax can be tiered progressively, according to various levels of usage above the subsistence level. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
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KSH: One-Third Of Hungary's Households Live Beyond Subsistence
According to the report Subsistence Levels 2014, presented by KSH at a press conference on Wednesday, a family of one adult and one child could live on ... «Hungary Today, Jun 15»
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How much money do you need to live in Georgia?
Geostat figures showed the minimum subsistence level for a Georgian able-bodied male in May 2015 was almost 162 GEL. Photo by N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge. «Agenda.ge, Jun 15»
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More and more Russians slipping below poverty line as recession …
“Official” poverty comes when incomes fall below the minimum subsistence level. Today, the minimum is 8,000 rubles a month ($150) per person. “Until recently ... «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jun 15»
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What is the cost of life in Georgia in 2015?
Meanwhile, the Geostat figures noted the country's minimum subsistence level (amount of money a person needed to support themselves) had slightly increased ... «Agenda.ge, May 15»
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Santorum and the EPA's Mercury Rule
He also misstated the effects of mercury on IQ levels. .... in the Regulatory Impact Analysis “did not include any analysis of subsistence level consumption. «FactCheck.org, Apr 15»
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How much is Georgia's minimum subsistence in 2015?
Latest figures from Geostat, the National Statistics Office of Georgia, noted the country's minimum subsistence level (amount of money a person needed to ... «Agenda.ge, Apr 15»
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Fico debuts minimum pension plan
As the subsistence level – a minimal level of incomes for a private individual not to slip into material need – is valorised annually, the minimum pension will grow ... «The Slovak Spectator, Feb 15»
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Demonizing the Minimum Wage
“By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of decent living.” It had other purposes, too, including regional economic ... «The New Yorker, Sep 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Subsistence level [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/subsistence-level>. Apr 2024 ».
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