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

And here we have high income countries in the OECD.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

China s High Income Hopes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

NEW YORK The world s high income countries are in economic trouble, mostly related to growth and employment, and now their distress is spilling over to developing economies.

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.

In the post colonial period following World War II, the prevailing development paradigm was a form of structuralism the aim was to change poor countries industrial structure to resemble that of high income countries.

Some adjustments, like in France nowadays, weigh mostly on high income, high wealth individuals others, like in Italy, weigh on pensioners.

In March, household debt levels reached a record high of 44 of income.

By contrast, in high income countries, income taxes (primarily on individuals) comprise the largest proportion of tax revenue (roughly 36 ), while domestic taxes on goods and services and social security contributions each account for slightly more than one quarter.