Sentences with phrase «of the middle class in»

What should excite investors the most is the growing size of the middle class in China and India.

Nike (NKE)-- Phil Knight's shoe company stands to benefit from the explosion of the middle class in emerging markets like China and Mexico.

Demand for commodities is expected to stay relatively strong over the coming 20 years, reflecting the growth of the middle class in emerging markets, especially China.

The rapid growth of the middle class in developing markets globally, and particularly in Asia, has catalyzed rapid changes in consumer demand.

But the other side of the coin is the devastating hollowing out of the middle class in the western industrial democracies.

But even in Davos, which is favored by champions of globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class in many parts of the world.

It's just a matter of time before we see a reversion to the mean in which housing prices revert back to the true fundamental condition of the middle class in this country.

The growth of the middle class in China has helped other big American companies, expanding the potential harm of the tariffs.

Though it is certainly possible to speak of democratic arrangements in Athens or the rise of a middle class in ancient Egypt, it does not make sense to employ the term «ancient Greek liberalism» or «Egyptian liberalism.»

The growth of the middle class in markets such as China - and the resulting increase in disposable income - has been pinpointed as the driving force behind an increase in global dairy consumption and demand.

SINGAPORE, 12 January 2016 — One of the key factors that have driven the growth of the wine market in Asia is the evolution of the middle class in this region, who bring with them greater disposable income and an increased emphasis on the quality of life.

Gary LaBarbera, President of the New York City Building and Construction Trades Council said, «Unions have long been the bedrock of the middle class in New York City and throughout the United States.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Middle Class Recovery Act increases taxes on millionaires and cuts taxes on members of the middle class in state.

Although conservatives opposed attempts to allow greater representation of the middle class in parliament, they conceded that electoral reform could not be reversed and promised to support further reforms so long as they did not erode the institutions of church and state.

Dunham also discussed the plight of the middle class in New York, noting that some New Yorkers might be squeezed out of the city and even forced to move to Florida.

Kolawole said the forum would also be organising a public lecture on Electoral Participation of youth with the topic — «Politics of Sustainable Development in Nigeria, Exploring the Inclusion of the Middle Class in the Dominant Discourse».

During 13 years in office, Gordon Brown quietly but skilfully enmeshed large sections of the middle class in a gladiator's net of state dependency.

The themes are complex, too, ranging from climate change to the struggles of the middle class in middle America, from religious fable to mental health tale.

«One thing I don't think people realize — charter schools are keeping a lot of the middle class in cities,» he said.

Additionally, we believe that in the coming decades a significant portion of global growth will be driven by the rise of the middle class in emerging markets; while U.S. - based multinationals will benefit from this trend, investors may have greater opportunities to benefit by taking a global approach to this global phenomenon.

Beyond issues like poverty, unemployment, and the growth of the middle class in Mexico, which are foremost concerns for Pérez, he has no doubt that art, too, would suffer.

Studies show that about 80 percent of the indigent population and more than half of the middle class in the U.S. lack access to legal services.

-- Don Peck — Across the Atlantic, so to speak, the author explores the decline of the middle class in America.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

In fact, the company that has played a staring role in the Dow's outperformance does not actually employ a lot of traditional middle - class Americans: Goldman Sachs (gsIn fact, the company that has played a staring role in the Dow's outperformance does not actually employ a lot of traditional middle - class Americans: Goldman Sachs (gsin the Dow's outperformance does not actually employ a lot of traditional middle - class Americans: Goldman Sachs (gs).

The plight of the middle class was a major theme of his launch speech and the subject of his first position statement, published as a column in the Toronto Star entitled: «Canadian middle class left out of the growth equation.»

Richmond attributes the surge in trans - Pacific air travel to continued growth of the Chinese economy and middle class.

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

The first is that emerging economies are expanding rapidly, creating unprecedented growth in a global middle class who are both producers and eager consumers of manufactured goods.

In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

He grew up in the working - class city of Fitchburg, in central Massachusetts, the middle son of five kids.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the manufacturing sector provided a growing share of middle class job opportunities, thanks to strong unions.

A typical middle - class couple with their home paid off needs only about 50 % to 60 % of the income they earned earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.

However, the emphasis of Trudeau and Morneau in their first budget was on sops for the middle class, not productivity.

A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

I spoke to Henry Siu, a professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in automation and the decline of middle - class jobs; he predicted that the trucking industry could automate within the span of one to two years.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

That shows you, even though they're at their infancy in terms of ecommerce, the middle class in China is set to explode, and the ramifications on global trade, companies here that produce products they want to buy, is absolutely monstrous.

Most of us were brought up poor or in the middle class — and then continue the rest of our lives plagued by the thoughts, ideas and actions of the poor and the middle class.

The company created a huge marketplace and a sophisticated distribution network just in time to serve a generation of Chinese consumers attaining middle - class prosperity.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

(The Atlantic) Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa have lifted themselves from destitution into something like the middle class.

«Canada's middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades based on a host of indicators,» Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, two from Fraser's stable of experts, wrote in an op - ed published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 17.

If you make a middle - class salary of, say, $ 40k to $ 60k after tax in the USA, you're spending 5 % to 15 % of it on gas.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

«Some Canadian cities have as diverse a middle - class population as any city on the planet, and part of what you have to do is play to that diversity and know that having Thai peanut sauce makes sense in one city but it doesn't make sense somewhere else,» says Underhill.