Basic needs

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The very basic needs of some people are food, shelter and clothing, but many other people add other items to that list. Basic needs are items that people MUST HAVE, at least.

The lifestyle of many people includes expenditures on many other goods and services, some even that other people would call "luxuries", but the very poor are forced to "cut down" their expenditure to only basic needs.

Poverty, in general, results from spending more than one's income, and borrowing to feed consumption may be necessary despite the unfortunate fact that it will make things worse.

The "basic needs" model in development discourse focuses on the elimination of poverty in the shortest amount of time. As a result, emphasis is placed only on the minimum level of consumption of 'basic needs' such as food, water, shelter, sanitation, healthcare, and education. Development programs following the basic needs approach do not invest in economically productive activities that will help a society carry its own weight in the future, rather it focuses on allowing the society to consume just enough to rise above the poverty line and meet its basic needs. These programs focus more on subsistence than fairness.