Nineteen were high income, 21 were middle income and 10 were low 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.

And here we have high income countries in the OECD.

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

High income countries might find that reason enough to want out.

Despite being a low income region, India and other South Asian countries have adopted the growth patterns of middle to high income countries.

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.

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.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

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

As incomes in China grow, imports from other low or middle income countries rise faster than imports from high wage countries.

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

China s High Income Hopes

In low income countries and regions, the levels of entrepreneurial activity are high but are often generated by high rates of necessity entrepreneurship.

Likewise, US children face considerably more violence in society than children in other high income countries do.

Yet some other high income countries, such as the United States and Canada, are not keeping up.

But semi conductors, circuit boards, and other components were designed and manufactured in high middle income countries like Korea.

The country has a high unemployment rate of 12.6 and has fairly low median income compared to European countries.

There are also middle income, high debt developing countries that need a reprieve from the debt burden they face.

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

Yet more than 22 million children lack access to the basic vaccines that people in high income countries take for granted.

In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

As medical advances and technological developments have helped cancer patients in high income countries to live longer to the extent that some forms of cancer have effectively become chronic conditions those in low income countries continue to die young.

The US is one of the few high income countries that does not finance health care through a publicly funded prepaid system.

Indeed, given record high public debt levels in many countries, few governments have substantial scope to address inequality through further income redistribution.

We have the high income countries here, with the United States as a leading power we have the emerging economies in the middle, which provide a lot of the funding for the bailout and we have the low income countries here.

Yet Latin American and Caribbean children gain fewer skills in each year of school than students do in high income countries and even in some other developing countries.

Two high income economies got themselves into trouble.

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

But such data are commonly reported for high income countries today, including those ranking high on indices of economic prosperity and human development even Western Europe s highly developed welfare states.

Virtually all (99 ) occur in low and middle income countries, but most research and funding focuses on high tech care for the 1 of deaths occurring in rich countries.

This year, the budget deficit stands at a peacetime record of around 10 of GNP, much higher than in other high income countries.

Moreover, growth in international tourist arrivals had been faster in the developing world than in high income countries, particularly between 1990 and 2003.

That is equivalent to about five times aid flows and budget savings from debt service relief provided by high income countries in 2002.

By contrast, if developing countries cut their tariffs by the same proportion as high income countries, and services and investment were also liberalized, the global annual gains could climb as high as US 120 billion, with US 17 billion going to the world s poorest countries.

Indeed, the region is not poor by international standards, but rather stuck in the middle income range between the world's poorest places and the high income countries of North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Life expectancy in the world s high income countries is now 78 years, while it is only 51 years in the least developed countries, and as low as 40 years in some AIDS ridden African countries.

However, other low income and middle income developing countries also needed special attention.

High income countries also finally agreed to reduce the debt owed by heavily indebted poor countries, allowing them to spend more on health care and less on crippling payments to creditors.

One of the shocking realities in recent years is that America now has almost the lowest degree of social mobility of the high income countries.

While no regional experience is directly transferable, the Nordic countries have successfully combined social welfare with high income levels, solid economic growth, and macroeconomic stability.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

People migrate from poor countries, from middle income countries, and from rich countries.

Other low income countries should follow suit.

As at March 2005, 93 countries and territories had produced 104 such reports, ranging from middle income countries to some of the lowest income least developed countries.