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Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
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O'Dougherty, Maureen. Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Photographs, map, figure, bibliography, index, 280 pp.; cloth $59.95, paperback $19.95.
The "nonexistent" Latin American middle class seems to be going through another phase of rediscovery. First examined at length in the late 1950s by historian John J. Johnson, the middle class more recently has been the subject of scholarly works by D. S. Parker (1998...
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Emergence of the Chinese middle class and its implications.
Asian Affairs: An American Review
; With phenomenal economic growth, a middle class has emerged in China, and its size has been increasing rapidly. A recent survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) estimated that the middle class has swelled 1 percent every year since 1999 and included 19 percent of the population by
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ROYAL TROUBLE FOR MIDDLE CLASS.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Byline: BILL VIRGIN P-I columnist BILLBOARD NOT YET spotted along state Route 99: Will the last middle-class family leaving Seattle please turn out the lights? The future - or lack thereof - of the middle class has been on the minds of a lot of people lately. Escalating housing prices have many
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Middle class society a long way off
China Daily
; There is still a long way to go before the much-anticipated middle class becomes a mainstream, accountable group in China. The talk about China's middle class among research institutes and experts has been growing as the country's economic advancement gallops apace. There were, according to a
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For many people, middle class is a state of mind, not numbers. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... middle-income group shrank from 75 to 67 percent. When Duncan looked for explanations, what he found was ``exactly half good news and half bad news.'' More families were climbing into the upper rungs of the income ladder and more families were falling to the lower ...
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Middle class that's a force to be reckoned with
New Straits Times
; Brian Yap New Straits Times 07-18-2007 Middle class that's a force to be reckoned with Byline: Brian Yap Edition: Main/Lifestyle Section: Main Section IN a lecture last week, former deputy prime minister Tun Musa Hitam essentially called middle class Malaysians the role models for the rest of the
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