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

Upper middle income GNI per capita between 2,936 and 9,075.

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

This is particularly important with regard to the key group of lower middle income and middle income countries.

That solution will involve slowing the growth of Social Security pension benefits for future middle and upper income retirees.

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

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

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

For middle income countries, it is a tougher call.

Middle income countries can and should increase national investments.

The middle income countries should receive substantial debt relief.

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

Technological innovation and global market forces have produced a decisive shift in income toward capital and the upper 20 of the income distribution, often at the expense of middle income groups, the unemployed, and the young.

What s the leading cause of death in low and middle income countries?

While the bulk of UNICEF resources will be allocated to cooperation in least developed countries (LDCs), UNICEF will continue to play a meaningful role in support of children's rights in a more selective manner in middle and upper income countries.

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

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.

More than 70 of the world s poor now live in middle income countries.

Indeed, most countries entering middle income transitions see their growth slow, even stall.

All those factors continue to severely affect many developing countries, especially middle income and less developed countries.

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).

More alarmingly, such deaths in low income and middle income countries account for about 85 per cent of the total.

Layla lived in an upper middle class neighborhood.

This is no longer a feasible strategy for large or middle income developing countries.

Meanwhile, more than 150 countries have been trapped in low or middle income status.

He is thinking, of course, of middle income countries like India, China, and Brazil.

Some leading regions in India are now the envy of other middle income countries.

Middle income, low price wage countries would grow faster with a higher inflation rate.

How can the resolution of debt sustainability problems facing middle income countries be facilitated?

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

At least a quarter of the world's population lived in lower middle income countries.

Nearly all deaths among children under five years of age (99 per cent) occur in low income countries or the poor areas of middle 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.

Don't get confused of the progress of the emerging economies and the great capacity of people in the middle income countries and in peaceful low income countries.

The tradable side of advanced economies has not generated any real net increases in employment for at least two decades, while the jobs that it has created are concentrated in the upper income and upper education ranges, with employment declining in the middle and lower range of income and education.

In terms of purchasing power parity, per capita income in middle income countries is still about 15 of that of developed nations.

Namibia is also classified as an Upper Middle Income country by the World Bank, and ranks 87th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing business.

Much of this rise stems from growing prosperity and current account surpluses in middle income countries.

Of concern was the lack of progress in addressing the debt problem of middle income countries.

I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one third of Sub Saharan Africa's. Today, China has become an upper middle income country, and it is on track to become a high income country by 2020.

But, although the World Bank classifies Lebanon as an upper middle income country, with a per capita GNP of 10,800, 28 of the population lives below the poverty line.

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

For most low and middle income countries, the incipient economic recovery appears to be fragile and uneven.