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5.0 Economic Development
Living Standards
Living Standards
Analyse why low income farmers are likely to have low living standards. [6] by Zabian Omar
As they have low income the farmers will have less disposable income which they use to buy goods and services that can improve his quality of life such as a phone as can only afford the essentials.
Farming doesn't require an education, thus the farmer may never have gone to school and learned. This makes him occupationally immobile and he is stuck doing farming or low paying labour intensive work.
Furthermore, his low income means he may not be able to afford healthcare, so if he was injured when working he may never recover not be able to work leading to homelessness and low standard of living.