The high level of income inequality requires specific poverty reduction efforts.

a Includes a reduction of one post under income section 3.

GROSS BASE SALARIES FOR THE PROFESSIONAL AND HIGHER CATEGORIES OF STAFF ESTIMATED REDUCTION IN STAFF ASSESSMENT INCOME

Poverty reduction programmes are now focusing on women's associations for promoting income generating activities.

But there are not enough tax breaks for the rich to cover another 20 reduction in their income tax rate.

The poverty reduction strategy papers outline an ambitious agenda for poverty reduction, particularly when viewed against the severe capacity constraints facing most low income countries.

6. The Paris Club had also accepted the principle of debt and debt service reduction for low income countries, although that reduction was still insufficient.

Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.

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

This resulted in a reduction in income from support costs from UNDP from 4.3 million in 1990 1991 to 3 million in 1992 1993.

For example, in 2001, the NCB was responsible for preventing an estimated 40,700 families with 94,800 children from living in low income. This represented an 8.9 percent reduction in the number of low income families.

In June 2003, the Governing Council adopted decision 197, establishing a temporary payment mechanism in view of the reduction in the Compensation Fund's income.

The estimated level of support cost income shows a reduction when compared with estimates for the previous biennium.

The total estimated income reflects a net reduction of 3,090,700 resulting from decreases under a number of sources.

Since 1999, the poverty reduction strategy papers have become the overall framework for lending, debt relief and development cooperation in low income countries.

This resulted in a reduction in income from support costs from UNDP from 4.3 million in 1990 1991 to 3 million in 1992 1993 (paras. 57 to 59).

59. The steep decline in ITC apos s execution of UNDP funded projects during 1992 1993 also resulted in a reduction in income from support costs from UNDP.

Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender inclusiveness?

Besides the slow pace of poverty reduction, human development has not kept up with the pace of income growth, either.

The problem of reduction of poverty has been dealt with, for example, by introducing a parental wage, reducing the income tax, raising the minimum tax exempt income, indexing of pensions, etc.

The promotion of income generating activities and the involvement of local communities in the implementation of projects are advocated as means of furthering poverty reduction.

There are even country experiences where progress has been made in achieving economic growth and overall poverty reduction, but where income distribution has nonetheless worsened.

In the Fund and the Bank, the analysis underlying the call for quot timely and realistic debt reduction quot focuses on the lowest income countries.

Ensuring long term stability will require poverty reduction, job creation, reduced income inequality, and the development of these countries human resources.

The current focus was on advancement of the President's vision of human resources development through employment, income generation and poverty reduction.

Growth should promote full employment and poverty reduction, and should seek improved patterns of income distribution through greater equality of opportunity.

The Committee notes that the revised methodology, if adopted by the General Assembly, will result in a significant reduction over time of the income inversion anomaly.

It plots income, average income in China as a percentage of average income in the United States.

In Africa in particular, the reduction in food subsidies to consumers, the increase in producer prices and the depreciation of the currency might have led to a shift in income towards the rural area, which was the poorest and this, it can be argued, constituted a reduction in poverty.

For Wal Mart, for example, the projected savings arising from labour savings in warehousing, reduction of stock, reduction of theft, better tracking of pallets and reduced inventory could amount to up to 80 per cent of its 2003 net income.

Miscellaneous income amounted to only 0.4 million, primarily because of a reduction in the value of the assets held in currencies that have depreciated vis à vis the dollar in 1992.

Reduction in operational reserve

Income sections income (decreases) of income

Models of small credit loans from job creation, poverty reduction and farm economy programs have provided women with both job and higher income.

For many heavily indebted non HIPC and middle income countries, debt sustainability will require significantly more debt reduction than has yet been proposed.

a) Other income includes interest income and miscellaneous income in the range of 3 million per annum.

amount in the income estimates under income section 1, Income from staff assessment, of the programme budget.

These terms treat the debt owed by lower middle income countries and do not involve any write off of debt or reduction in net present value of debt servicing.

Income received in advance

The reduction in extrabudgetary income to a great extent also reflects the lower interest rates prevailing in most countries during the year and therefore a lower apportionment of interest to supplementary activities.

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Poverty reduction in fishermen communities

Poverty reduction in fishermen communities

But a country s poverty rate also depends on the degree of income inequality a reduction in which makes growth more pro poor and inequality in China has, in fact, increased more rapidly than in India.

Miscellaneous income interest income