This is particularly important with regard to the key group of lower middle income and middle income countries.

The middle income countries, the emerging economy, they are catching up.

By World Bank classification, 34 government donors were high income countries, 19 were upper middle income, 26 were lower middle income and 19 were low income countries.

49. Tunisia, one of the middle income countries, welcomed the initiatives taken on behalf of the poorest countries and suggested that they should be extended to include middle income countries as well.

The middle income countries should receive substantial debt relief.

The low income and lower middle income countries are marked with an asterisk.

A total of 93 Governments (35 high income, 41 middle income and 17 low income countries) contributed to regular resources.

A per capita income of more than 7,000 places us squarely among upper middle income countries.

Low income or lower middle income countries (as per World Development Report, 1993).

To a large extent, the external debt crisis is being overcome in many middle income countries, although it has become worse in low income ones.

The aim of the plan is for Lebanon to regain its position among the world apos s upper middle income nations by the year 2002.

At least a quarter of the world's population lived in lower middle income countries.

It is true that for a few middle income countries the debt crisis may be largely over.

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

The problem still remained in some lower middle income and low income countries where economic and political difficulties had delayed a solution.

We have to respect the middle income countries on what they are doing.

Throughout history, there are countless examples of middle income countries becoming stuck in that category for decades and or eventually falling back to low income status.

But the middle income countries and this is where I suggest to my students, stop using the concept developing world.

Accordingly, the debtor countries are classified into three categories (a) the poorest and most indebted countries (b) heavily indebted, lower middle income countries and (c) all others.

However, for many low income countries as well as lower middle income countries the debt crisis is far from over.

Some leading regions in India are now the envy of other middle income countries.

At the same time, there has been much less progress in providing institutional mechanisms for the debt problems facing middle income countries.

With regard to the latter, the Special Unit will facilitate the creation of linkages between technology exchange centres in middle income countries and similar entities in poorer countries in the South.

Don't get confused of the progress of the emerging economies and the great capacity of people in the middle income countries and in peaceful low income countries.

Since the 1990s, SSC has been strengthened by an increasing number of middle income countries in developing regions.

In middle income countries and others where the goals are already within reach, Governments should adopt a Millennium Development Goals plus strategy, with more ambitious targets.

Even in a middle income country like India, public schools and public clinics face mass (unpunished) absenteeism.

We urge donor countries, development agencies and the international financial system to increase their financial and technical cooperation with medium and low income countries, with a moderate debt level, one of which is my country, Guatemala.

And all of the Muslim majority countries across the income are coming down, as do the Christian majority countries in the middle income range.

101. Political commitment was certainly responsible for some of the progress made by low income and lower middle income 4 countries in these areas.

Expanding trade boosts income, on average, in all the countries involved.

As official development assistance (ODA) debt was the main component of the foreign debt burden of heavily indebted low income and lower middle income countries, the Trinidad and Tobago terms should be adopted and expanded to cover all the countries in those two groups.

On average, a family spends about 10 of the monthly households income per person infected.

Don't get confused of the progress of the emerging economies and the great capacity of people in the middle income countries and in peaceful low income countries.

Adopting the Trinidad terms would assist the low income countries.

Greece, Argentina, and the Middle Income Trap

Steps should be taken to ensure that these funds continue to be used to support growth and poverty reduction in the poorest developing countries and provide liquidity support mechanisms in middle income countries.

In some countries, it is reported that young people experience a poverty rate above the average.

This leads to the second challenge the dire financial straits of middle income households.

On the basis of that income level, Namibia was classified as a middle income country. That income level, however, concealed an extremely dualistic society, with sharp differences in economic conditions and living standards.

The remarkable achievements by certain low income and lower middle income countries in decreasing mortality and fertility rates over the past 20 years also reflects a high degree of commitment to population related concerns on the part of those countries.

Relative failure of adjustment in low income countries

The debt problem was particularly serious for the countries of the sub Saharan region, although it had not yet been completely solved even for middle income countries.

In addition, better trade access to markets, particularly for some middle income countries, could do much to free aid resources for the least developed countries.

His country welcomed the initiatives taken by certain creditor countries with a view to reducing or writing off the debt of the least developed countries and of low and middle income countries, and other creditor countries should consider analogous measures.