Sentences with phrase «gross national income»

The government should drop its commitment to spending 0.7 % of gross national income on development aid, peers have said.

In 1991, 44 percent of children in the world's low - income countries (with gross national incomes under $ 1,000 per capita) completed primary school.

The six countries that contribute more than they receive from Brussels — Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands — want to cap their contributions to the E.U. at 1 % of gross national income per year.

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

13:16 - There will be a guarantee of development funding of 0.7 per cent of gross national income by 2013.

Not breastfeeding is associated with economic losses of about $ 302 billion annually or.49 % of world gross national income.

This is particularly concerning when our country ranks third in gross national income, but our maternal death rates are consistent with Hungary and Iran, and behind Croatia and Kuwait, quite farther behind Iceland, Singapore, and Estonia.

Maintain our commitment to spend 0.7 % of UK Gross National Income on overseas development assistance, in line with the OECD definition, which we legislated for in the last Parliament.

«We literally rank the world by [gross national income] per capita» when it comes to certain drugs such as vaccines, said Witty.

For the New Democratics, we have included their commitment to increase international assistance (ODA) funding to 0.7 % of Gross National Income over the next ten years.

The World Bank now calculates gross national income instead, but the differences are insignificant.

In addition, economic modeling demonstrates that SHELL gene testing will confer substantial annual economic gains to the oil palm industry, to Malaysian gross national income and to Malaysian government tax receipts.

GDP per capita Gross national income per capita Annual GDP growth in 2005 Fixed capital formation, % of GDP GDP deflator

Modelling conducted for the Series estimates that global economic losses of lower cognition from not breastfeeding reached a staggering US$ 302 billion in 2012, equivalent to 0.49 % of world gross national income.

The Conservative leader also said the United Kingdom should be proud to be the first G7 country to meet the UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on international development.

The correlations with gross national income per capita support the hypothesis that short - term financial considerations are important.»

Our commitment to ring - fence the budget of the Department for International Development, and meet the target of spending 0.7 % of Gross National Income by 2013 on foreign aid, are founded on our conviction that the issues of development, security and trade are intertwined.

Just a conversion of the land to more profitable yields, or this huge BRIC population increasing its share of the world's gross national income, had salivated the most passive of investors — resulting in huge inflows into all these countries.

As recently as 2010, when the four BRIC countries accounted for more than a quarter of the world's land area and more than 40 percent of the world's population, they accounted for only one - quarter of the world gross national income.

While the U.S. is much the biggest provider of overseas development aid (ODA) in absolute terms — sending $ 32.2 billion abroad in 2014 — it falls behind if its aid is considered as a proportion of gross national income (GNI)-- a measure that aggregates gross domestic product (GDP) with income obtained from abroad.

Moreover, statistical analyses indicate that the link between religious salience, at the country level, and the total fertility rate (TFR), at the country level, is positive (p <.05), even after controlling for region, urbanicity, gross national income per capita, and income inequality in these countries.

Indeed, there is a statistically significant (p <.05) association between religious salience, at the country level, and the percent of adults who are married, at the country level, even after controlling for region, urbanicity, gross national income per capita, and income inequality in these countries.

In high - income countries alone these losses amounted to US$ 231.4 billion, equivalent to 0.53 % of gross national income.

In addition to costing the NHS more than # 40 million for five common diseases alone, the long - term impact of the UK's low breastfeeding rates on cognitive ability, human capital and productivity across the whole population is estimated to cost the economy at least 0.53 % of gross national income.

Categorization is determined by Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, which is the total dollar value of a country's final income in a year, divided by its population.

The 1970 resolution of the General Assembly said that by 1975 developed countries would give 0.7 % of their gross national income every year in official development assistance.

We made a promise as a country that we would spend 0.7 pc of our gross national income on international development — and I am proud to be part of the first British

It is why Britain is the only country in the G20 to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on overseas development.

The methodology used in the preparation of each set of results took as its starting point the gross national income (GNI) of the States Members of the United Nations during the corresponding base periods as a first approximation of the capacity to pay, and applied conversion factors, relief measures and limits to the scale in order to arrive at the final scale.

The latest sign of the rise of Ukip — which campaigns for the UK to leave the EU — follows an unexpected attempt by the European commission to get the UK to pay # 1.7 bn more into European coffers following a budgetary readjustment, based on the gross national incomes of member countries.

The commission said the budget was always adjusted to take account of countries» gross national incomes but provoked a furious response from David Cameron, who said he would block the payment by the due date of 1 December.

Defence secretary Liam Fox «can not support» plans to increase the aid budget to 0.7 % of gross national income, he has said.

All of Westminster's three main parties promised it in their 2010 manifestos — but it's taken a single backbencher to give their pledge to lock down 0.7 % of Britain's gross national income on aid spending a chance of becoming law.

The Conservative party has committed itself to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on development by 2013.

France, using the same tweaked calculations of gross national income, is going to get a huge sum of money back.

And while the US increased its aid budget by 14 per cent, it remains one of the lowest donors, contributing just 0.19 per cent of its gross national income, compared to 0.33 per cent in the UK and 0.38 per cent in France.

Dfid has announced that foreign aid as a whole is to be maintained at 0.7 % of the UK's Gross National Income, taking on board anticipated inflation, that figure is expected to be # 10.5 bn in 2014 - 2015.

Conservative enemies of development spending could unite to block a bid to force future governments to spend 0.7 % of gross national income (GNI) on aid.

While these media outlets, backed up by Ukip politicians, call for an end to the aid programme altogether, on the other side, development charities and mainstream politicians churn out messages celebrating the supposed marvels aid can achieve, and passionately defend the commitment to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on aid.

Mr Evans insisted that he was keen on encouraging Britain's political parties to commit to international development issues - including their goal of providing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to aid projects by 2015.

A CSIS team created a visualization to show how certain countries develop over a period of time in relation to rule of law, gross national income per capita and regulatory quality.

As the gross national income increases in these countries, so does the use of plastic.

The difference couldn't be explained by the ratio of men to women in a country, its gross national income, or the race of the participants, but it did correlate with the national health index of the men's countries — a measure of overall well - being.