Most likely he took as his standard of sufficiency the bourgeois rentier income of his day, which was about ten times that of the average worker.

It is not clear why Keynes thought eight times the average British national income per head would be enough. Most likely he took as his standard of sufficiency the bourgeois rentier income of his day, which was about ten times that of the average worker.

The average income for blacks in the city was less than half that of whites.

So throughout most of human history, average sugar consumption was near zero.

And I will do that by trying to predict precisely at what year the average income per person in India, in China, will reach that of the West.

The average income of a person involved in household economy is around 40 60 and this helps increase their personal as well as family income.

Nevertheless, I suspect that the age of American exceptionalism is near an end, and soon per capita income in Europe and Japan will approach that of the US, rather than falling farther behind.

That kind of economic mismanagement is the reason why a country that 45 years ago had a per capita income equal to that of Spain is now one of Latin America's most economically desperate.

The median income of a household in the city is 16,813 (the mean income is 20,292) (2005) which places approximately 18 households in the city below the poverty line (defined as 60 of the mean income).

These officials are wearing on their wrists the equivalent of four or five years of an average Ukrainian s salary.

a major microeconomic restructuring of the economy to anchor the country s emerging middle income country status

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

If such improvements in productivity do last, the vistas this will open are amazing an America 50 years from now in which the average full time worker earns not 40,000 a year, but the equivalent of today's 160,000 a year.

The others evolved into multi party democracies during the middle income transition.

The poverty line in the UK is commonly defined as being 60 of the median household income.

By 2001, the average pension in the Federation was two thirds of the average income per capita, which is above average for transition countries.

The average income per capita of SSA countries in 2000 was less than half that for all developing countries, about 40 of the level of East Asian and Pacific developing countries, and less than 25 that of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.

People in the industrialized countries are already an estimated 74 times richer per capita than those in the poorest countries.

The district has the second highest population while its residents have the third highest median household income among 18 districts.

It has a vast and growing prison population, with annual spending on each incarcerated inmate equivalent to a middle income California household s after tax income.

On the other hand, female farmers usually gain lower income than men, equivalent to only 73 in 2002.

If average annual economic growth is 5 per cent, the average resources needed would only represent 0.6 per cent of annual GDP.

Has every low or medium income country taken sufficient responsibility, at the national level, in the quest for solutions to the problems posed by AIDS?

The average costs (tuition, fees, and living expenses) for a year of higher education in 1986 were 1.4 million Yen(US 10,000), of which parents paid a little less than 80 , or about 20 of the average family's income in 1986.

The income of a single parent is approximately 84 of the average income of a member of a household in Estonia. The income per person among families with three and more children is 81 of the average income in Estonia.

As a result, total labor income the product of jobs times hours worked times average hourly wages has fallen dramatically.

Growth in real output has averaged around 5 percent in the past seven years, but rapid population growth has offset much of this increase.

According to IMF projections, of the 119 governments that are shrinking their 2013 budgets (relative to GDP), three quarters are in developing countries (including 21 low income and 68 middle income countries).

As a result, the income of almost 70 of the labor force cannot increase as fast as their labor productivity, and average household income thus cannot grow as fast as the economy as a whole.

Interestingly, many countries that performed better than Chile on these standardized tests have a lower income per capita.

The average Egyptian s income level, for example, is just 12 of the average American s, and Egyptians can expect to die 10 years sooner.

At that point, the part of the world s population with advanced country income levels ( 20,000 dollars or above in today s dollars) would increase from 16 to 66 .

Moreover, eight million jobs were created, 17 million people escaped poverty, and the income of the poorest 50 grew 32 twice as fast as the income of the richest 10 in the same period.

It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties and average household income remains stagnant for the third decade running.

According to the Palestinian Economic Council for Reconstruction and Development (PECDAR), annual per capita income in Gaza continues to average roughly 700, while Israelis enjoy incomes averaging a 16,000 per capita.

Queens County, New York is the only county with a population of 65,000 or more where African Americans have a higher median household income than White Americans.

But 350 billion is roughly what the financial sector as a whole earned in an average quarter during the credit boom and profit levels in recent quarters have reached or exceeded those levels.

Today, average nominal wages in the eight post communist EU countries are about one fifth of the West European level and often only a quarter to a half of Western levels of social assistance.

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In Africa and elsewhere, there are semi HIPC countries and middle income countries that are burdened with unsustainable debt servicing capacities and have resources that are far too inadequate to finance the Millennium Development Goals.

How much do America s highest income earners make compared to the world s billion poorest individuals? Well, if the top nine donated their earnings, it would be the equivalent of about three months income for the bottom billion.

The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.04.

A loss of 170 billion can be attributed to future real wages, for households will find themselves paying higher margins to companies with more market power. The net gain is thus 170 billion of added social value in 2007, which is 0.3 of world GDP, equal to the average product of seven million workers.

The 34 reactors that started up over the last decade had a mean construction time of nearly ten years, but contributed just 26 GW one third of what solar and wind added in one year.

Resources of up to 1.1 per cent of GDP annually will be required to achieve the goals in the areas of extreme poverty, hunger, education, gender and maternal and child mortality, assuming average annual economic growth of 3 per cent.