At higher levels of income, markets become saturated and growth slows.

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

Most of them are middle income countries where levels of extreme poverty are low.

Most Americans income and wealth are below their levels long before the crisis.

With the rebate taken into consideration, the FairTax would be progressive on consumption, but would also be regressive on income at higher income levels (as consumption falls as a percentage of income).

The levels of planned programme expenditure will be continuously adjusted based on updated information about projected income.

Please provide information on the economic activities of rural women and their income levels in comparison with men.

The current shocks to GDP have led to falling levels of per capita income and brought widespread poverty.

As of 2008 average purchasing power adjusted income levels are similar to those of Italy, Sweden, Germany and France.

Such inequalities were attributable to differences in income levels and to explicit or implicit policy choices.

Only through such sustained growth can per capita income approach the levels prevailing in the developed world.

And, given similar per capita income levels and cultural orientations, overlaps in production and consumption are considerable.

However, low income and least developed countries need assistance in raising the floor to more acceptable levels.

More immigration would strengthen skills and raise income levels, while reducing distressed countries expenditure on unemployment benefits.

But research conducted over many years suggests that greater wealth implies greater happiness only at quite low levels of income.

Rich countries have long promised to increase their aid levels to 0.7 of national income (from around only 0.25 today).

Moreover, Sri Lanka had applied the recommendations of the Jomtien Conference. Considering its per capita income, Sri Lanka had done well in the education field compared to countries with similar income levels.

It opens new markets, permits the expansion of productive capacity, skills and technology transfer, and generates higher levels of income and employment.

The single most important source of income inequalities was the unequal distribution of wealth at both the national and the international levels.

With unemployment rising, income dropping to record low levels, and internal tensions escalating, fighting between supporters of Hamas and Fatah began.

It is in the Northeast Region that we observe the highest levels of absolute poverty and income concentration in the country.

These levels take into account the objective of optimizing the use of resources within the bounds of income and sound liquidity management and are also subject to actual regular resources income in the plan period.

Many of us have been forging ahead with reforms at full steam and are on the verge of reaching higher levels of income.

Given the varying degrees of industrialization and levels of income across developing countries, the scope for producing similar but differentiated products seems limited.

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

Estonia and Costa Rica are well known examples of how information access strategies can help accelerate output growth and raise income levels.

Rising levels of income inequality within and among countries threaten the possibility of lifting people out of poverty, promoting employment and fostering social integration.

Despite their low income levels, by virtue of their numbers, this group of persons, if targeted, could generate significant growth and activity for businesses.

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week.

Contributing to increased social equity by improving indigenous peoples' income levels and employment opportunities in the wider Australian employment market

Far from promoting equitable systems for the distribution of income, they create more regressive systems at both the national and the interregional levels.

China, too, has now reached this critical last leg of the long march to advanced country status in terms of economic structure and income levels.

Trade Estonia has had a market economy since the end of the 1990s and one of the highest per capita income levels in Eastern Europe.

Based on national experience, it considered economic development, including an increase in per capita income levels, to be the fundamental way out of poverty.

Fiscal reform will determine many things the components of domestic income and demand that will drive structural change on the supply side, the allocation of income and expenditure across levels of government, and the embedded incentives that this allocation implies.

Emerging economies will achieve higher growth (in the 6 range), and their income and wealth levels will continue to converge with those of advanced economies.

If they continue their current strong growth trajectories, as seems likely, they will approach advanced country levels of income by mid century or shortly thereafter.

The broader measure of real per capita after tax personal income has also been falling, and is back to levels last seen a year ago.

Low productivity of licit agricultural crops, insufficient infrastructure and lack of access to technology, credits and markets all inhibit the generation of licit income beyond subsistence levels.

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

Bertrand and Morse find that in the years before the crisis, in areas (usually states) where consumption was high among households in the top fifth of the income distribution, household consumption was high at lower income levels as well.

Loans enable women to maintain acceptable levels of income, but given the small amounts involved, they do not encourage accumulation in the economic sense of the word.

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).

There probably are real choices to be made between income levels and distribution, on the one hand, and the range of employment opportunities on the other.

Noting that in some economies in transition this progress has been slower, resulting in lower aggregate development levels and lower per capita income,