Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

While their personal wealth increased, living standards for everyone else either stagnated or, for lower income groups, declined.

Better control of inflation in Latin America, except Brazil, reduced the loss of purchasing power in the hands of fixed income earners and those in lower income groups.

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

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

For example, revenues from tobacco taxation, which disproportionately affects lower income groups, should be used to fund cessation support programs that target disadvantaged smokers.

You see mental distress going up with lower income.

A number of projects provide assistance for small scale activities, including ones carried out by non governmental organizations and grass roots groups that benefit lower income groups and contribute to poverty alleviation.

External viability remains a problem, however, for many low income and lower middle income countries.

lower or middle income countries, the emerging income countries, they will also forge forwards economically.

Lower middle income GNI per capita between 736 and 2,935.

An unintended outcome of the restoration exercise, however, has been the gentrification of the historic city centre, resulting in the social exclusion of lower income groups.

Lower age groups, including schoolchildren, are now being threatened.

And these lower or middle income countries, the emerging income countries, they will also forge forwards economically.

20. UNDP implements or supports a number of projects providing assistance for small scale activities in LDCs, including activities by NGOs and grass roots groups that benefit lower income groups and contribute to poverty alleviation.

Truman twice vetoed bills to lower income tax rates in 1947.

In lower income areas, families gave priority to boys over girls.

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

Numerous middle income and lower middle income countries find that their access to private external finance is limited.

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.

Mongolia is ranked as lower middle income economy by the World Bank.

Same child mortality as Bangladesh had, 1990, though they had lower income.

I will split Tanzania in five income groups, from the highest income to the lowest income, and here we go.

The increase in leverage was driven in part by government policies aimed at expanding home ownership among lower income groups that have proven unable to afford that life style.

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

24. UNDP is providing 800,000 for technical assistance in a low cost housing project for the building of 1,400 houses, of which 800 will be reserved for lower income groups.

Some members felt that it should be available only to lower income States.

Income from this source has also supported armed resistance groups.

Middle and lower skill workers tend to remit a higher proportion of their income.

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

In recent years UNCDF has financed the following credit programmes for lower income entrepreneurs.

Low income rates have also been on the decline for those groups more likely to experience low income.

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

Noting that in some economies in transition this progress has been slower, resulting in lower aggregate development levels and lower per capita income,

Thus, the spreading of prostitution is linked to unemployment among women, their lower status on the labour market and lower income as compared to potential income from prostitution, and traditional gender roles assigned to women.

(b) Many low income and lower middle income countries still have an unsustainable debt burden and require urgent additional measures regarding debt relief.

Noting also that in some economies in transition this progress has been slower, resulting in lower aggregate development levels and lower per capita income,

First, is there evidence that US politicians respond to lower income voters preferences or desires?

As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth. Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

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.

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

With lower nominal income and the same level of debt, the threat of default necessarily increases.

Second, we must recognize that high prices can cause enormous stress, especially for lower income individuals.

In 2005, other resources (regular) income is expected to be 126 million lower (16 per cent).

Attention was also drawn to the urgent needs of lower middle income countries for debt reduction.