A concern regarding the capacity of low and middle income countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals was also expressed.

El Salvador wishes to draw the attention of the international community to the category of low and medium income countries, to which we belong.

A reformed United Nations system must, therefore, devise special mechanisms to reduce the debt burdens of low and middle income countries.

Only 12 per cent of the people in need of antiretroviral therapies in low and middle income countries were receiving them I think the President stressed that in his statement.

By 2008, total resources for HIV programs in low and middle income countries were an incredible 50 times higher than they were just 12 years earlier.

The debt problems faced by many low and middle income developing countries continue to severely constrain their ability to accelerate economic development and to achieve the MDGs.

Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on 8 September 2000, which reaffirms the need to deal comprehensively and effectively with the debt problems of low and middle income developing countries,

With due deference to the 2003 Evian approach , there has, however, been no real initiative to address the debt of low income and middle income developing countries that are not part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative process.

We need to support research that illuminates both the causes and consequences of road traffic injuries in low and middle income countries and we must share the information that we generate.

Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on 8 September 2000, See resolution 55 2. which reaffirms the need to deal comprehensively and effectively with the debt problems of low and middle income developing countries,

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

Low income countries could also be promoted as retirement centres.

Noting with concern the fact that some highly indebted, low and middle income developing countries continue to face serious difficulties in meeting their external debt servicing obligations, which constitutes an element that seriously constrains their efforts to ensure sustained economic growth and sustainable development,

For most low and middle income countries, the incipient economic recovery appears to be fragile and uneven.

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

To strengthen purchasing power and to stimulate consumption, tax cuts on low and medium income households are essential.

Progress also needed to be made on extending external debt cancellation to low and middle income countries.

Recognizing the urgent and specific needs of low income countries, in particular the least developed countries,

But, despite their robust base and low administrative costs, excise taxes currently amount to less than 2 of low income countries GDP, compared to roughly 3 in high income countries.

The question of debt sustainability analysis is also key to the resolution of the debt crisis of other low and middle income countries.

Nearly all deaths among children under five years of age (99 per cent) occur in low income countries or the poor areas of middle income countries.

This is the principal means by which low income households receive housing subsidies.

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

His Government also recognized the significant contribution of SMEs to employment creation and income generation.

Stressing the determination expressed in the Millennium Declaration to deal comprehensively and effectively with the debt problems of low and middle income developing countries, through various national and international measures designed to make their debt sustainable in the long term,

For many low income countries, remittances as a share of GDP and imports are larger than in the case of middle income countries.

These small sums, equivalent to one third to one half of their annual per capita incomes, are far beyond the resources of most low income countries.

Supply chains also dispersed geographically, with lower value added components and processes allocated to low income countries.

Economy Agriculture, dominated by banana production, is the most important sector of this lower middle income economy.

Of the 39 countries reflecting increases, all but one are low income countries.

In order to ensure that the share of TRAC line 1.1.1 resources allocated to low income countries remains in the range of 85 to 91 per cent of total TRAC line 1.1.1 resources, it became necessary to assign a low income country bonus.

Noting with concern that some other highly indebted low and middle income developing countries are facing serious difficulties in meeting their external debt servicing obligations,

This was necessitated primarily by the movement of six countries from the low income to the middle income category Armenia, China, Djibouti, Honduras, Sri Lanka and Ukraine.

Disasters are also closely correlated with poverty, as low income countries are disproportionately affected by them.

First and foremost, we need policies in low income countries that promote economic growth.

The Millennium Declaration of the United Nations stipulates the target of halving the proportion of the world's poor, whose income is less than one dollar a day, from 29 per cent to 14.5 per cent of all people in low and middle income economies by 2015 (MDG 1).

The report indicates that the NCB initiative has had a positive impact on low income families with children

Most organizations in the field also focus their services on those microentrepreneurs who, as defined by federal government standards, are low to moderate income.

And low income economies are suffering from higher food and fuel prices, which feature heavily in households consumption baskets.

Contributions had been made by 19 high income, 21 middle income and 10 low income countries, with 15 countries having increased their contributions, 11 of them by 7 per cent or more.

In the course of the experiment, methods of monitoring thunderstorm activity in low and middle latitudes and the luminosity of the night sky over seismically active regions were studied.

Yet, despite talk of a rising Asia, only a handful of East Asian economies have moved from low to high income status during the past several decades.

But dramatic gender inequities persist in South Asia, more so than in other low income countries.

High post harvest losses and low value added result in limited competitiveness and missed opportunities for employment creation and income generation.

Mr. Abhayasingha Bandara, Sri Lanka, addressed the issue of adaptation to increased thunderstorm hazards among low income families.