Sentences with phrase «rise of the middle class»

Making translated Bibles available in Europe lead to increased literacy, to the rise of the middle class and standards of living, and to the return of Christianity to its sacred mission.

Concomitant with the rise of the middle class came a marked decline in alcoholism, crime, and births out of wedlock.

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.»

Such human factors as American leadership or the rise of a middle class paled, however, in comparison to the hand of the unmoved mover.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

Second is what I call global flattening: the rise of middle classes all across the world that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands and aspirations of Americans.

The autocratic reign of the Tsars came to an end in 1917, sparked by economic hardship instigated by Russia's involvement in World War I, rapid urban growth, and the rise of the middle class.

Keeping companion animals became common only with the rise of the middle class and urbanization, perhaps because of the deprivation of other contact with animals, or simply because pets cost money and are therefore a signifier of extravagance (Americans spend $ 34 billion on their companion animals every year).

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.

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

Tsai said rising disposable incomes of China «s «over 300 million middle - class consumers» was helping drive the firm's online sales — and would continue.

While entrepreneurship rose, manufacturing — a strong source of middle class jobs for decades — has slowed, the draft plan found.

«The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining,» he wrote in The Guardian.

«Rapidly urbanizing cities in the frontier markets of Africa and Southeast Asia will benefit from favorable demographics, cheap labor and a rising middle class,» said LaSalle's Gordon.

She argued that for a generation, America's middle class had been caught in a vise of stagnant incomes and rising expenses.

This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.

China's rising wages may be making production more expensive, but decades of supplying the West with manufactured goods has also nurtured a Chinese middle class that wants to buy those baubles for itself.

During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

The cost of some key middle - class expenses has risen much faster than inflation.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

Emerging markets are driving this growth: China, in particular, is the world's largest consumer of meat, with protein consumption expected to grow 3 — 4 % a year thanks to a rising middle class.

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

The net result was that 81 per cent of middle - class taxpayers saw their taxes rise, and on average pay $ 840 more annually.

The rising cost of necessities like health care, housing and education is crowding out discretionary spending for middle - class Americans, said Stephanie Pomboy, founder of MacroMavens, an independent economics consulting firm in New York.

Alibaba and Fitbit, which opened a flagship store on Tmall two years ago, have taken notice of a rising awareness of wellness issues among China's middle class.

A rising middle class has led to the emergence of Western - style shopping malls.

China should be attractive to small U.S. companies, due to the market's size, rising consumption in the country and an increasing fondness for American products among China's young and growing middle class of over 300 million consumers.

But as the country's middle class gets more comfortable, giving back is on the rise — to the tune of 70 Billion RMB just last year.

S & H, as the company was known, benefited greatly from the rise of the suburban middle class after World War II.

Ramathreya Krishnamurthi, Business Head of TimesJobs, says, «Our RecruiteX report reflects the growth of the Indian middle class and their rising purchasing power which has converted the dream of owning a home into tangible demand for affordable housing.

Cain kept rising in the polls for a couple of weeks after that, but if other missteps and a sex scandal hadn't destroyed his candidacy first, the growing realization that he had proposed a middle - class tax increase would have finished him.

Still irrelevant, since the Dow only reflects the 1 %, so this only supports the claim of the widening of the wealth margin, disappearance of the middle class, and the rise of poverty.

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

Despite the rhetoric of both the Democratic and Republican parties heralding the U.S. as a republic of stockholders, Phillips observes that «middle - class families held (just) 2.8 percent of the total growth in stock market holdings between 1989 and 1998, but accounted for 38.7 percent of the rise in household debt.»

Those whom Noonan called «the protected,» which is to say the rich and powerful in the West, share with the rising middle class in the developing world a remarkable harmony of interests.

The liberalization of the economy under Congress's leadership in 1991through such measures as eliminating tariffs and restrictions on private business - created a new constituency for the traditionally pro-business BJP: the rising middle class in urban centers.

The status of status is changing, and the upper middle class is choosing high - rise city living over suburbia.

Increasingly the movement drifted toward a view that women should he enfranchised in order to double the vote of the white, Protestant middle class and thereby assure the supremacy of this ruling class over the rising tide of blacks and immigrant Catholics and Jews.

«With exponential population growth through 2050, rising middle class growth and increasing demand for protein, it will be an incredible challenge to meet the nutritional needs of a growing planet,» Wagner says.

Food contamination scandals and environmental issues have changed food buying habits of the rising Chinese middle class, which perceives imported food to be safer than the domestic food supply.

The rapid growth of emerging economies will see billions of people transition out of poverty and into the middle income classes.73 By 2022, China's middle class alone could rise from 300 million to 630 million, accounting for 45 % cent of China's population.74 This income growth will occur in parallel with urbanisation.

Wines of Australia attributed this «exceptional» growth to the China - Australia Free Trade Agreement, as well as the rising interest in wine among the growing Chinese middle classes, who are drinking imported wine more frequently.

Australian Certified Organic clients will be invited to join a webinar with Jessica to understand what it's like to live there, the new dominance of e-commerce and the rising middle class.

Food contamination scandals and environmental issues have changed food purchasing habits of the rising Chinese middle class, which perceives imported foods to be safer than the domestic food supply.

the industrialisation of developing nations and, in particular, the rise of Asia and the growing Asian middle class;

A sharp rise in birth rates in China linked to the end of the one - child policy, and the growth of an affluent middle class, has boosted the company, which specialises in fresh dairy and baby food.

How a middle - class club gotmiddle - class... discrimination... and the rise of clubs operated solely forprofit.