His delegation welcomed the commitment by a number of development partners to achieving the 0.7 per cent target of gross national income (GNI) as official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries, and urged all partners to try to reach the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of GNI as assistance to the least developed countries by 2010.

(a) Estimates of gross national income

My delegation supports the timetable proposed by the Secretary General to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance by 2015.

Here let me place special emphasis on the allocation of 0.15 to 0.2 per cent of gross national income to official development assistance for the least developed countries.

Total personal income is a key value in calculating per capita income.

For someone with a 15 marginal tax rate, a 2 of AGI cap would limit total deductions and exclusions to about 13 of AGI.

It also affirmed its commitment to provide the designated percentage of gross national product as development assistance, of which 15 per cent will be earmarked for least developed countries by 2006.

This would mean a direct negative shock to household spending in the US of around 5 of national income, and of around 3.5 in Europe and Asia.

We also hope that the progressive increases proposed will mean that the least developed countries will receive 0.2 per cent of those countries' gross national income, as agreed in the Brussels Programme of Action.

What the minister intends to say is serious, because if attacks happen outside Bogotá, the potential GNP decreases more than proportionately to the real GNP, which means that the gross national product figures he can show are, according to this measurement, more significant.

This was the result of the steady decline in national income.

Current earmarkings are based on gross national income (GNI) per capita for 2001.

However, global ODA is still well below the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of the gross national income of developed countries, leaving much room for improvement.

I have explored the idea of capping the benefit that individuals can get as a percentage of their total income (their adjusted gross income, or AGI in US tax parlance).

a Low income GNI per capita of 735 and less.

Its official development assistance would attain 0.46 per cent of gross national income in 2006 and was expected to reach 0.50 per cent in 2007 and 0.70 per cent by 2012.

We repeat the goal is only 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

However, taxable income in the sector is still growing at a slower rate than gross income as measured by national accounts.

The sum is 0.45 per cent of total Government income, excluding Government loans.

After the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, GDP became the main tool for measuring a country's economy.

First, the scale for 2007 2009 should be based on the most current available GNI data.

Sports are already a separate economic sector, representing around 2 of the GNP of several developed countries.

We recall their commitment to increase their official development assistance to a level equivalent to 0.7 per cent of their gross national income.

This includes the following elements a specific timetable for increasing official development assistance to 0.7 per cent of gross national income a massive improvement in the quality of assistance ensuring that debt is manageable and providing the innovative resources that are indispensable for meeting the needs before us.

It is easy to imagine each social group demanding a larger share of national income, which by definition is inflationary.

Lower middle income GNI per capita between 736 and 2,935.

c 2003 per capita GNI estimate based on United Nations Statistics Division data.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

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 usual assumption is that household consumption falls by around 0.05 for each 1 decline in household wealth. This would mean a direct negative shock to household spending in the US of around 5 of national income, and of around 3.5 in Europe and Asia.

Revenue from natural resource exports represented 25 of total income in the public sector in 2008.

National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20 of national income, compared to around 10 in the US.

The European Union has now set a clear timetable to achieve the 0.7 per cent target for aid.

It's basically two ratios of per capita GDP, per capita gross domestic product, so average income.

On the contrary, it included the former Yugoslavia in the scales of assessments that it adopted for the periods 1995 1997 and 1998 2000, based on national income gross national product data for Serbia and Montenegro.

And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.

The greater the number of girls who go to secondary school, the Bank adds, the higher the country s per capita income growth.

You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to measure their gross national happiness rather than their gross national product.

Putin promises to double Russia's GDP by 2010 an ambitious aim, and success would improve democracy's prospects.

In contrast, in developed countries, the top decile receives 29 of the total income, while the bottom decile earns 2.5 .

The promise of 0.7 means that the rich world would give developing countries a mere 70 cents out of each 100 of national income.

From the outset, we have led the efforts to increase this assistance to 0.7 per cent of gross national income by 2015.

Simply put, Western Europe is overrepresented in international organizations, given its size in terms of GDP and even more so in terms of population.

As reaffirmed at Monterrey and Brussels, 0.20 per cent of gross national product should be directed towards LDCs.

We call on more donor countries to join us in delivering on the agreed United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income.