According to the Boston Consulting Group (its partners reported some of their insights in Forbes here), a consumer company doing business in 70 locations (cities and counties) in China could reach 70% of consumers in the middle and affluent classes as of 2005.
You know, it's an affluent middle class sort of cookie cutter "Leave It To Beaver" image.
Indonesia's strong economy and growing, increasingly affluent middle class are especially attractive to foreign investors.
At its simplest, parenthood exposes even the affluent middle classes to public services, from hospitals to day-care centres or libraries.
An affluent middle class and many top government officials have taken up the sport, boosting its social status and commercial appeal.
Reporters are typically middle class or affluent and control their eating.
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China's economic growth in recent years, which has seen it become the world's second-largest economy, has been accompanied by the emergence of a more affluent middle class.
Bearsden is an affluent middle class commuter town serving Glasgow, which explains why levels of owner-occupation are so high (76.8%) and professionals and managers so numerous (44.6%) within the constituency.
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Given a choice of providing nursing home care for poor senior citizens, keeping criminals off the street, or subsidizing the college education of relatively affluent middle class students, politicians are not about to favor the universities.
Two decades of free-market reforms have given China an ever-more affluent urban middle class.
The more fiduciaries there are, the better the service for aging, affluent and middle-income investors.
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These participants and their spouses, now numbering about 4, 500 people, are overwhelmingly white, highly educated, middle-aged and affluent.
Its 70, 000 customers, mainly middle-aged and affluent, can run their accounts by telephone or from a personal computer.
That "would slam the door shut on lower capital gain rates for thousands of middle-income and affluent families, " says Onink.
Not all Middle Eastern Christians are affluent or well-educated - some of those who fled the violence in Iraq were poor and under-privileged.
"It was a completely a burger crowd, " said Ms. Mansuri, using a slang term for the affluent, middle-class voters who tend to support PTI.
The costs to the affluent and middle class in wasted dollars and hours of emotional hardship can be minimized with proper planning and action, informs the NAEPC Education Foundation news release.
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There is a growing middle class of newly affluent consumers who will pay outrageous prices for iPads and iPhones made in China for U.S. distribution, sold here in the States and then shipped back to China for retail sale.
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Ms Joshi says most offenders are members of the growing middle-class and affluent Indians - they are aware that the technology exists and have the means to pay to find out the sex of their baby and abort if they choose.
High Speed Rail benefits middle-income tourists and affluent business travelers.
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Had I filled out the questionnaire seven years ago, I would have been categorised as either "established middle class" or "new affluent" because back then I could afford to go to the theatre regularly and went to dinner at posh restaurants.
For a relatively affluent country that wants to escape the middle-income trap, such statistics are depressing.
Who, for example, would vote for a home ownership cash subsidy program that subsidizes affluent Americans at a more generous level than it does the middle class?
We saw the middle class put under even greater stress and saw its incomes stagnate and shrink while more affluent Americans saw their wealth increase.
The principle is that affluent Americans should pay the same -- at least the same tax rate as middle American wage earners.
Though we think of NCDs as diseases of more affluent societies, some 80 percent of all NCDs today occur in low- and middle-income countries, due largely to changing lifestyles.
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