Since your reform of the licensing raj and embrace of the global economy, India has lifted tens of millions of people from poverty and created one of the largest middle classes on the planet.
And a government keener on redistributive clobbering of the middle classes, without breaking its pledge not to raise income-tax rates?
While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
China's coastal urban middle classes have been bingeing on everything from life insurance to cars and computers.
Rising house prices and good tax accountants have made it a largely voluntary tax on the honest, careless or unlucky middle classes.
Coke has staked future growth on the rise in Latin American and Asian middle classes.
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To confirm this result, the researchers also looked at characteristics such as each participant's birthweight, his mother's age when she gave birth, the mother's level of education and her marital status, all of which differ, on average, between the poor and the middle classes.
The opponents Mrs Arroyo has picked on will not have much sympathy among Manila's middle classes.
It is, of course, possible to view this entire episode through an extremely cynical lens: Putin is trying to strengthen his support among the lower classes which, far more than the middle class, depend on state-provided healthcare and education.
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Peasants fled from soldiers and vagabonds foraging for food, the urban middle classes floundered, and the surviving towns and cities, barely hanging on, could no longer protect the countryside and its farms.
On social media, many Brazilians reacted to the news saying that the country's middle classes would have to learn how to live without house maids, as has already happened in many developed countries.
Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate and writer on the politics of famine, says rising demand (for example, from the Asian middle classes) and not failing productivity is the main reason for the current crisis.
It contained plenty to make the middle classes happy, including cuts in the overly-high levels of duty levied on imported liquor and cars, as well as, more usefully, on information-technology products.
The lower classes spend money on goods and services provided by people working in jobs that pay a middle-class or lower-class wage.
Mr. Malouf, 53 years old, is no stranger to Petersham Nurseries, having cooked master classes there in the past when launching his acclaimed cooking-cum-travel books on Middle Eastern cuisine, which he co-authored with his former wife, Lucy Malouf.
Former minister Peter Kilfoyle resigned from the government so he could press ministers to concentrate more on Labour's core supporters whom, he claims, are being ignored in the rush to appeal to the middle classes.
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