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The poverty line for lower middle-income countries (LMICs) has moved to US$3.65 from US$3.20, while the poverty line for upper middle-income countries (UMICs) has moved to US$6.85 from US$5.50. [6] The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 ...
This is a list of Commonwealth of Nations countries by GDP in nominal values. Gross domestic product is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. The GDP dollar estimates presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Values are given in millions of US dollars. Dependent ...
Top 10 Tax haven — Macau: Tax haven (Sink OFC) 3 Singapore: Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC) 4 Brunei: Oil & Gas 5 United Arab Emirates: Oil & Gas 6 Ireland: Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC) 7 Switzerland: Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC) 8 Norway: Oil & Gas — Hong Kong: Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC) 9 United States: 57,467 10 Saudi Arabia: Oil ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world's 26 poorest countries, home to 40% of the most poverty-stricken people, are more in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural ...
African and Middle Eastern countries ravaged by war and famine remain the poorest in the world, according to new published data. RANKED: The 28 poorest countries in the world — where people live ...
Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the ...
Markets across the world may have risen to record highs in 2013's run-up, but the great gains made by investors, companies, and leading economies haven't extended around the entire globe. Many ...
Income ratios include the pre-tax national income share held by top 10% of the population and the ratio of the upper bound value of the ninth decile (i.e. the 10% of people with highest income) to that of the upper bound value of the first decile (the ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%).