Prohibitive cost of living

Continuing increases in the cost of living or the level of retail prices tend to diminish the ability of consumers to purchase the goods and services on which they depend in order to maintain an adequate standard of living. Increases in nominal wages may sometimes be considerably reduced, or even effectively nullified, by rises in prices.

1. Excessive costs

1. Unmanageable cost of dying
2. Prohibitive ownership costs
3. Prohibitive cost of nutritious food
4. Prohibitive cost of necessities in rural communities
5. Prohibitive cost of home maintenance
6. Prohibitive cost of education
7. Prohibitive cost of basic services
8. High cost of housing
9. High consumer prices
10. Expensive functions
11. Excessive proportion of income spent on food

1. Rising cost of unemployment benefits
2. Poor living conditions
3. Marginal level of family income
4. Deteriorating quality of life
5. Departure of business from small communities to urban locations
6. Counterproductive eco-labelling

1. Uncontrolled household rent increases
2. Prohibitive cost of goods and services
3. Prohibitive cost of capital equipment
4. Economic and industrial production instability
5. Discriminatory professionalism
6. Dependence on sophisticated technology for development
7. Decline in real wages

1. Instability of food prices

1. Reducing cost of necessities
2. Reducing cost of living
3. Living off the land
4. Inflating cost of necessities

1. Prohibition
2. Inflation
3. High-spiritedness
4. High-mindedness
5. Costliness