(a) Estimates of gross national income

This would mean a direct negative shock to household spending in the US of around 5 of national income, and of around 3.5 in Europe and Asia.

Current earmarkings are based on gross national income (GNI) per capita for 2001.

This was the result of the steady decline in national income.

a Low income GNI per capita of 735 and less.

We repeat the goal is only 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

It is easy to imagine each social group demanding a larger share of national income, which by definition is inflationary.

The usual assumption is that household consumption falls by around 0.05 for each 1 decline in household wealth. This would mean a direct negative shock to household spending in the US of around 5 of national income, and of around 3.5 in Europe and Asia.

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

c 2003 per capita GNI estimate based on United Nations Statistics Division data.

And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.

National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20 of national income, compared to around 10 in the US.

The European Union has now set a clear timetable to achieve the 0.7 per cent target for aid.

First, the scale for 2007 2009 should be based on the most current available GNI data.

His delegation welcomed the commitment by a number of development partners to achieving the 0.7 per cent target of gross national income (GNI) as official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries, and urged all partners to try to reach the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of GNI as assistance to the least developed countries by 2010.

The promise of 0.7 means that the rich world would give developing countries a mere 70 cents out of each 100 of national income.

The greater the number of girls who go to secondary school, the Bank adds, the higher the country s per capita income growth.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

On the contrary, it included the former Yugoslavia in the scales of assessments that it adopted for the periods 1995 1997 and 1998 2000, based on national income gross national product data for Serbia and Montenegro.

From the outset, we have led the efforts to increase this assistance to 0.7 per cent of gross national income by 2015.

As such, we welcome the recommitment to the Monterrey and Johannesburg outcomes and the renewed emphasis upon the achievement of the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance.

The early industrial era economic accomplishments occurred despite the loss of a substantial proportion of national income to support a corrupt, decadent, and profligate aristocracy.

As stated in paragraph 1, the recalculation uses 2003 per capita GNI and population data.

Here let me place special emphasis on the allocation of 0.15 to 0.2 per cent of gross national income to official development assistance for the least developed countries.

My delegation supports the timetable proposed by the Secretary General to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance by 2015.

And, in the wake of WWII, most countries erected elaborate social welfare states in which the public sector expanded to more than 40 of national income on average.

All developed countries should make timetables for reaching the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for international development assistance by the year 2015.

The representative of the European Union had stated that the most accurate reflection of capacity to pay was gross national income (GNI) and that there could be no basis for exceptions to that principle.

It also affirmed its commitment to provide the designated percentage of gross national product as development assistance, of which 15 per cent will be earmarked for least developed countries by 2006.

It had no objection to the use of GNI data covering periods up to 2004 in preparing the scale of assessments for 2007 2009.

The increases and decreases therein result from changes in per capita GNI and population data as calculated using the agreed distribution methodology.

There have also been recent improvements in the overall levels of ODA, which reached 78.6 billion in 2004 (0.25 per cent of the national income of donor countries).

However, the principal element of the methodology should continue to be capacity to pay, the most accurate reflection of which was gross national income (GNI).

It favoured a six year base period for the scale of assessments, since it would help to smooth out the impact of short term fluctuations in GNI and promote stability in the scale.

Initial TRAC 1 refers to the current TRAC 1 calculation for the years 2004 2007 using 2001 GNI per capita data.

I don t see any other, more pressing, reforms such as raising income taxes to pay for national security gaining any traction in the Bush regime.

We also hope that the progressive increases proposed will mean that the least developed countries will receive 0.2 per cent of those countries' gross national income, as agreed in the Brussels Programme of Action.

However, the amount given has amounted to a mere 0.25 per cent of the combined gross national income of countries that are members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Initial TRAC 1 refers to the current TRAC 1 calculation for the years 2004 2007 using 2001 GNI per capita data.

However, global ODA is still well below the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of the gross national income of developed countries, leaving much room for improvement.

Per capita income is relevant where there are large concentrations of income and revenue, which is the case in urban centres or populated locations that have basic services.

European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10 of national income is typically spent on social transfers.

We reaffirm the long standing commitment to the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance (ODA) and welcome the commitments made, especially by the European Union and others, to that end.

Third, since the current scale was based on the average of the results of machine scales using base periods of three and six years, it failed to smooth out the impact of short term fluctuations in GNI.

However, since the level of government funding usually depends on the level of national income, Governments in least developed countries are least likely to afford large outlays for population activities.