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Basic needs

Here are entered works on human needs such as food, shelter, education, health, water, employment, etc. that provide a minimum quality of life.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Social ecology

• Poverty
• Quality of life
• Social rights

• Necessities of life
• Needs, Basic

• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2017), by Ingrid Robeyns (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Understanding Changes in Poverty (Washington: World Bank Group, 2014), by Gabriela Inchauste, João Pedro Azevedo, B. Essama-Nssah, Sergio Olivieri, Trang Van Nguyen, Jaime Saavedra Chanduví, and Hernan Winkler (PDF and text with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology (c2014), ed. by Joachim Von Braun and Franz W. Gatzweiler (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (second edition; c2012), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)

• Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), ed. by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp, contrib. by World Institute for Development Economics Research (PDF with commentary at UNU Press and OUP)

• Common Wealth for the Common Good, People's Edition: A Summary of a Paper From the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACSJC occasional paper #12; North Blackburn, Vic.: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1992), by Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (PDF in Australia)

• In the Shadow of Plenty: The Biblical Blueprint for Welfare (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Tortilla Flat (c1935), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries (2005), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF with commentary at fondad.org)
• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org

• The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy (London: Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852), by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, trans. by A. L. Krause, illust. by Edmund Evans (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern

• Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action (Bristol, UK, and Chicago: Policy Press, 2012), ed. by Alberto Minujin Z. and Shailen Nandy (PDF at equityforchildren.org)

• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)

• The Conquest of Poverty, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)

• Paying the Price: Why Rich Countries Must Invest Now in a War on Poverty (in multiple languages; Oxford: Oxfam International, c2005), by Arabella Fraser (PDF with commentary at internationalbudget.org)

• Chester Rand: or, The New Path to Fortune, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Cottage and the Grange (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1885), by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)
• Little Meg's Children, by Hesba Stretton, illust. by Harold Copping (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• No Place Like Home, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)
• The Carpenter's Daughter, by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, illust. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• City Sparrows, and Who Fed Them (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1876), by Ruth Lynn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Little Grey House (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Marion Ames Taggart, illust. by Ethel Franklin Betts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Minna Raymond, or, Self-Sacrifice: A Tale for the Young (London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by Alfred Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google)
• The Pretty Sister of José (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stephen, M.D. (New York: Robert Carter and Bros., c1883), by Susan Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Julia Maitland: or, Pride Goes Before a Fall (London: Griffith and Farran; New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1882), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, illust. by John Absolon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Little Red Shop (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paddy O'Learey and His Learned Pig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895), by Elizabeth W. Champney, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at Florida)
• Roses (New York: W. B. Ketcham, c1899), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Sydney Cowell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Try Again: or, The Trials and Triumphs of Harry West (New York: New York Book Co., 1911), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)
• The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (10th edition, 1904), by Gulielma Zollinger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination (7 volumes; 1993-2001), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (multiple formats at archive.org, HathiTrust, and Maryland)
• No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools (c2000), by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)

• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
• At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), by Giancarlo Maiorino (PDF at PSU)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.