The high level of income inequality requires specific poverty reduction efforts.

Poverty reduction programmes are now focusing on women's associations for promoting income generating activities.

The poverty reduction strategy papers outline an ambitious agenda for poverty reduction, particularly when viewed against the severe capacity constraints facing most low income countries.

The estimated level of support cost income shows a reduction when compared with estimates for the previous biennium.

The total estimated income reflects a net reduction of 3,090,700 resulting from decreases under a number of sources.

The problem of reduction of poverty has been dealt with, for example, by introducing a parental wage, reducing the income tax, raising the minimum tax exempt income, indexing of pensions, etc.

Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender inclusiveness?

But there are not enough tax breaks for the rich to cover another 20 reduction in their income tax rate.

Besides the slow pace of poverty reduction, human development has not kept up with the pace of income growth, either.

Ensuring long term stability will require poverty reduction, job creation, reduced income inequality, and the development of these countries human resources.

The current focus was on advancement of the President's vision of human resources development through employment, income generation and poverty reduction.

Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.

For example, in 2001, the NCB was responsible for preventing an estimated 40,700 families with 94,800 children from living in low income. This represented an 8.9 percent reduction in the number of low income families.

Models of small credit loans from job creation, poverty reduction and farm economy programs have provided women with both job and higher income.

Since 1999, the poverty reduction strategy papers have become the overall framework for lending, debt relief and development cooperation in low income countries.

For many heavily indebted non HIPC and middle income countries, debt sustainability will require significantly more debt reduction or restructuring than has yet been proposed.

There is a real need for significant debt reduction or restructuring, not only for the least developed countries but also for middle income developing countries.

The promotion of income generating activities and the involvement of local communities in the implementation of projects are advocated as means of furthering poverty reduction.

For Wal Mart, for example, the projected savings arising from labour savings in warehousing, reduction of stock, reduction of theft, better tracking of pallets and reduced inventory could amount to up to 80 per cent of its 2003 net income.

The country's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) incorporated the gender perspective, and women were able to finance income generating projects using a variety of microcredit facilities.

Economic growth reduces poverty only if it benefits the poor, and the effect of growth on poverty reduction is a function of the pattern of income distribution within a country.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.

Miscellaneous income interest income

This is a clear positive adjustment to redistribute the reduced income available under the conditions of the last five years, at the cost, however, of a major reduction in labour productivity.

It is vital that alternative income generating sources be generated to stave off relocations and the creation of internally displaced persons, and to ensure the success and sustainability of the opium reduction programme.

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

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But a country s poverty rate also depends on the degree of income inequality a reduction in which makes growth more pro poor and inequality in China has, in fact, increased more rapidly than in India.

This reduction became necessary in order to reflect the loss of purchasing power of the support cost income earned in United States dollars, due to the unfavourable euro dollar rate of exchange experienced during 2004.

a) Other income includes interest income and miscellaneous income in the range of 3 million per annum.

amount in the income estimates under income section 1, Income from staff assessment, of the programme budget.

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The reduction in income levels at international prices means that many more people in China and India are now classified as poor an automatic boon for the World Bank, whose primary business is to end poverty.

China, for example, has implemented a number of incentive policies in support of energy conservation projects, including interest payment rebates, differential interest rates, revoking of import taxes, reduction of income tax of enterprises and accelerated depreciation.

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.

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