Yet the increase in private consumption is expected to be much lower, because of a fall in the average propensity to consume.

It has lower taxes.

Academic research suggests that countries with higher per capita income, lower income inequality, and lower fertility rates tend to invest more in children s education, with public expenditure leading to higher enrollment rates. The logical conclusion is that efforts to promote more inclusive economic growth and improve education systems can raise enrollment among young people in developing countries and reduce disparities between genders and among social groups.

A number of partial studies point to shrinking health service coverage among younger groups.

The maternal mortality rate has remained generally low.

Moreover, since the tight restrictions on some imports were accompanied by low or zero tariffs on others, the average tariff rate and overall coverage were quite low.

The disinflation and ample liquidity created by the accommodative monetary policy of central governments have driven the market interest rates down to the extent that the fixed income markets no longer offer the returns that investors have enjoyed in the past.

Female illiteracy has been reduced to acceptable levels, and school dropout rates have declined.

It has also provided the use of mainframe computer services over the years at nominal or reduced rates.

While such savings now represented a greater proportion of the gross domestic product of developing countries than they had a decade earlier, savings rates in Africa and Latin America remained comparatively low, owing to low absolute levels of per capita income in Africa, the low rates of growth in income, continuing high levels of unemployment in both regions and patterns of income distribution.

The Bedouin population has a high rate of unemployment and low socio economic state.

Thematic funds have fewer restrictions than most other resources, allowing for longer term planning while reducing transaction costs and recovery rates.

Low income rates have also been on the decline for those groups more likely to experience low income.

This is a plot of frequency against time sort of like musical notation, where the higher notes are up higher and the lower notes are lower, and time goes this way.

The overall drop out ratios were relatively low, but they have increased for the last two years.

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

However, over zealousness on the part of policymakers to further decrease already low rates of inflation can lead to high interest rates that discourage investment and curb aggregate demand and that may affect private sector balance sheets.

Children living in low income settlements often have four times higher morbidity rates than their richer counterparts in the same city.

Results usually show that child labour rates are higher among indigenous children and that, in turn, their school attendance rates are lower, especially among girls.

Also, money transfer operators usually charge higher fees and offer less favorable exchange rates in transfer operations than commercial banks.

104. The positive employment trends also led to lower unemployment rates.

This is due to the relatively low collision rates expected for the next decades.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

In terms of applied rates (as distinct from much higher bound rates or lower GSP and LDC rates), ERPs are relatively low for the final stage of shoe production in the EU and US with 9 and 12 per cent respectively.

The 1992 census had shown that renters tended to have lower incomes and to be young.

Positive corporate contributions to development could support these initiatives, including through charging of lower interest rates and reduction of profit margins.

18. The stringency in official flows hit especially the sub Saharan region (defined here to exclude Nigeria and South Africa in order to focus on the smaller and generally lower income countries).

This rate is considered low, compared with other Latin American countries.

The relatively low deposit GDP ratio was, at the end of 1996, about 57.5 per cent.

The return movement took place in conditions of relative calm, and a low incidence of human rights violations was observed.

On the other hand, applied rates in developing countries are, in practice, often quite low.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance. Rather than relying mainly on income taxation, as in the US, the Nordic countries rely on value added taxation, which provides a relatively high amount of revenue with relatively low rates of evasion and few distortions to the economy.

For example, the low income rate for seniors has decreased from 9.8 percent in 1996 to 6.8 percent in 2003, and for children, the low income rate went down from 18.6 percent in 1996 to 12.4 percent in 2003.

49. The draft Convention on Assignment in Receivables Financing should help increase the availability of credit at more affordable rates and lead to significant progress in the area of financing.

Primary school completion rates are lower among indigenous populations than among non indigenous populations.

The total cost of the project is US 27.3 million.

Questions were also raised about the reasons for the low coverage of national ECD plans.

In particular, middle income country compliance remains at a less than desirable level.

Some maintain that household income accounting is simpler at the lowest income levels, while at the higher levels it is more difficult because of the complexity and tax avoidance.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

(a) The overall poor health and nutritional status of pregnant women resulting in a high incidence of low birth weight

This time, seven grades of tax rates of job salaries are the same as before without any changes, but the gaps between grades of tax rates are obviously changed. The gaps between three grades of low tax rates in 3 , 10 and 20 are obviously widened, the gap of the grade of tax rate in 25 is slightly narrowed, but the gaps between three grades of high tax rates in 30 , 35 and 45 are the same as before.

Some countries face the growing risk of near perpetual belt tightening, which would further dampen growth and thus keep debt ratios high. After all, if a country s debt GDP ratio is to decline without austerity, the interest rate that it pays on its debt must be lower than its GDP growth rate.

The Committee notes with concern, however, the very low enrolment of children in pre school and primary school and the even lower enrolment in secondary school, in particular of girls.

RATIO OF HIGHEST QUINTILE INCOME TO LOWEST QUINTILE INCOME