Q.Various calculations of the minimum requirements of food, income, water and such facilities have been made by government agencies and U.N. agencies. Search in your school library, or on the internet, for any such calculations.

The chapter names the broad categories any basic-minimum calculation should cover — nourishment, housing, water, education, and a minimum wage — and points to government and UN agencies, such as the World Health Organisation, as the bodies that actually calculate these. …

The chapter explains that there is broad agreement on what should count as part of the basic minimum — adequate nourishment, housing, a supply of clean drinking water, education, and a minimum wage — but it also notes that different governments and international organisations, including the World Health Organisation, have devised different specific methods of calculating these needs. To complete this activity, a student should look for concrete, official sources of such calculations — for instance, materials published by national government planning or statistics bodies that work out official basic-needs or minimum-wage figures, and publications by international agencies such as the World Health Organisation or other United Nations bodies that set recommended minimum standards for nutrition, water, or living conditions. The school library (economics and civics reference books, government reports) and official government or UN websites are good starting points, since the chapter itself does not supply specific numbers — it only tells us which broad categories (nourishment, housing, water, education, minimum wage) such calculatio …