The funding gap for the regular budget would have been 12.1 million if the exchange rate gains and the interest income were excluded from the total income.

Nevertheless, poverty and the income gap between regions remain an obstacle to the implementation of the CEDAW Convention.

The income gap between developed and developing countries has widened, and poverty has increased in many developing countries.

Current projections showed that there was an urgent need to close in 2005 a multi million dollar gap between income and expenditure.

It paid only 90 per cent of the gap, while the remaining 10 per cent (about 140 million annually) is covered by net factor income, which is mainly the income of Palestinian workers in Israel.

The negative effects of globalization had continued to widen the economic and social gap between the developed and developing countries, increasing inequality of income and opportunities.

The threat could become reality if the income gap between the richest and the poorest countries of the world continued to widen, as was currently the case.

Expressing concern at the increasing development gap between developed and developing countries, including the gap in knowledge, information and communication technologies, and the increasing disparity of income in and among nations and its adverse impact on the development of human resources, in particular in the developing countries,

Expressing its concern at the increasing development gap between developed and developing countries, including the gap in knowledge and in access to information and communication technologies, and the disparity of income within and among nations and its adverse impact on human resources development in developing countries,

If we use what is called the Gini coefficient to measure this income gap, with 0 indicating perfect equality of income distribution and 1 meaning perfect inequality, the number for China is 0.454 in 2002. This is an internationally recognized level of absolute disparity.

Numerous difficulties still confront the fight against prostitution, including the increasing sophistication of prostitution related activities, the income gap among the regions, unemployment, and the easy going lifestyle of some.

High taxation supports comprehensive national health care, education, pensions, and other social services, resulting in low levels of poverty and a relatively narrow income gap between the richest and poorest households. In the US, the poorest 20 of households receive just 5 of total income, putting their income at around one fourth of the national average.

1.61 Current projections of income and expenditure for 2005, shown in Table 3 below, indicate a funding gap for the regular budget of 11.1 million when comparing the net budgeted expenditure of 399.8 million (see Table 3 below) with total expected income of 388.7 million (based on indicative estimates from donors as well as interest income).

Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry? After all, such people argue, the average African would be a bit less poor.

Yet, in 2002, women's average income per hour was 36.7 NIS and men's 45.3 NIS, a 23 gap, indicating that the difference cannot be solely attributed to the number of working hours.

In 1994, for the first time since the inception of the Fund, benefits paid surpassed contributions ( 729.8 million vs. 711.7 million) and investment income had to be used to cover the gap.

This is one of the reasons that America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries nbsp and its gap with the rest has been widening. In the recovery of 2009 2010, the top 1 of US income earners captured 93 of the income growth.

This is one of the reasons that America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries and its gap with the rest has been widening. In the recovery of 2009 2010, the top 1 of US income earners captured 93 of the income growth.

But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

In 1980, average income in the US was a little more than three times that of Mexico, the gap between Singapore and Indonesia was 5.3 to one, and the difference between Spain and Morocco 3.5 to one. Even the gap between Greece and Albania, at three to one, was narrower than it is now.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

There's a gap here.

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Beyond the Gender Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The UN s Mandate Gap

The gap filling role

GAP Private Assistance Group

Addressing the Widening Gap

Many academic studies have found that the rate of convergence tends to be about 2 per year. That is, each year, an economy tends to close 2 of the gap between its actual and potential income levels.

It provoked the missile gap.

And this gap really narrows.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

The most difficult problems in Poland are unemployment, which hovers around 20 the highest rate in the EU and the growing divide between rich and poor. Indeed, only in Russia (and perhaps in Ukraine) is the income gap wider.

And that gap is very intimidating.

And that gap continues to widen.

Why is there a gap there?

Have a look at the gap.

The gap between them has narrowed.

But real income gains of 1.3 per year for the middle quintiles and 1.1 for the bottom are not exactly chopped liver, are they? The gap with 1.6 average annual growth rate for per capita GDP is small, isn t it?

According to the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard, Europeans simply enjoy leisure more than Americans do, even if it means that they have less money. In his view, this difference in attitude explains the income gap between Europe and the US.

The widening of the income gap between advanced and developing countries was distressing, and a strategy was needed to enable the developing countries to join in the global economy and participate in decision making in international financial and trade institutions.

To calculate how much of a latecomer advantage China has after 35 years of unprecedented growth, one needs to look at the gap between its levels of technological and industrial development and those of high income countries. The best way to see this is by comparing its per capita income, adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), with those of developed countries.