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

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.

The middle income countries should receive substantial debt relief.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We therefore urge the General Assembly to support debt relief for middle income countries whose economies have been devastated by natural catastrophes such as the tsunami and countries with high levels of poverty and debt.

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

We will also increase the current flow of ODA to Latin America and North Africa, with particular emphasis on middle lower income countries.

But what exactly does this imply for how middle and low income countries today should set their capital account policies amid the current flood?

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Indeed, as developing countries move toward middle income status, financial inclusion is a key component of continued progress.

While the bulk of UNICEF resources will be allocated to cooperation in least developed countries (LDCs), UNICEF will continue to play a meaningful role in support of children's rights in a more selective manner in middle and upper income countries.

In low income countries, half of all health care spending (about 2.5 of GDP) is out of pocket (compared to 2 in middle income countries).

We also hope that similar measures and initiatives will be taken to provide medium income developing countries with the means and mechanisms necessary to increase their development efforts and bolster their economic and social programmes.

Meanwhile, more than 150 countries have been trapped in low or middle income status.

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In 2008, India s female labor force participation rate averaged 35 , while low income countries averaged 58 .

IMF reform is sensible and should be supported. The Europeans do not need their current level of representation, and the positions and voices of middle and lower income countries should be strengthened.

Cooperation in middle income countries will often involve support for building national and local capacities to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes for highly impoverished children and families.

Mr. Hackett (Barbados) said that many developing countries, particularly in the middle income category, were small economies caught between servicing their debts and financing their development.

Major reforms are necessary to help middle income families escape crushing monthly payments for housing and education.

While the Group of Eight committed itself to cancelling all debts of eligible heavily indebted poor countries, countries that are euphemistically described as middle income countries teeter on the brink of disaster as they struggle with unsustainable debts.

The fact is that only structural transformation can lift a middle income developing country to high income developed status. Fortunately, China s leaders recognize this, and are committed to achieving it.

Further, we must note that the Goals do not address the special needs of the medium income developing countries.

It also calls for high income countries to open their markets to developing country exports through the Doha trade round.

The programme is focused on marginalized, low income countries, and aims to strengthen the analytical foundation of UNIDO's activities in these countries.

Indeed, most countries entering middle income transitions see their growth slow, even stall.

As a result, Turkey is projected to graduate from middle income status and enter to the league of rich countries by 2012.

The deployment of human capital has become an important factor in explaining why some countries remain stuck in a middle income trap and why others cannot break out of low income status.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

A more comprehensive approach to child protection, clearer targets and higher resource levels need to be reflected in the plan, which should also address the needs of traumatized children in middle income countries.

It is foreseen that pertinent recommendations will subsequently be integrated into relevant UNIDO activities in low income countries.

The economies of the developing countries have been growing, on average, more rapidly than those of the developed countries and per capita incomes in developing countries have been rising, particularly in China and India.

In these circumstances, currency traders suffer. But citizens of indebted middle income countries are likely to suffer far more.