middle classes

Egypt's young liberal middle-classes are discovering that they were not the only forces set free by the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak.

Here they had been trying to create a weekend idyll for the urban middle classes.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle classes.

It used to be said that the emerging middle classes would not be politically active.

But when it comes to those at the bottom of the system who enrage the middle classes, he offers coy platitudes or ideas that cost money.

Although at first this kind of marriage was more common among the rural poor, it subsequently spread to the urban middle classes.

And second, there has been a huge increase in "social transfers" , especially benefits for the middle classes and the elderly.

Without a party even willing to give lip service to protecting the interests of the poor and middle classes, where will we end up?

Even without China and India, the expansion of the new middle classes would be about 20m a year.

It is about a stagnant economy, rampant corruption, growing frustration among the middle classes and a war in the north Caucasus.

Since the Asian currency crisis of 1997-99, the middle classes in emerging markets have known nothing but success.

But any systemic economic crisis hits the poor first, the middle classes second, and the Cameronian millionaires last, if at all.

His body might be in the spike, but his spirit soared far away, in the pure aether of the middle classes.

The overall result was the destruction of Romanian elites and middle-classes, and their replacement with Soviet (mostly Slavic) elements.

China's newly mobile middle classes like to visit established spots like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Venice's Grand Canal.

The Communist party will have to countenance a much faster growth of the middle classes than it has prepared for.

That would be fair, but the articulate middle classes are unlikely to be impressed.

As a report last week from a UK government-appointed commission said, such is the competition, even the middle classes now struggle.

The rise of new middle classes is prompting governments in these countries to think hard about environmental costs.

In effect, they believe the poor would be induced to sell their organs to the middle classes and the rich.

He appeals mainly to the middle classes, although he also has a following among the popular sectors, particularly in the interior.

In India the poor, proportionately, are more likely to vote than are the middle classes.

Its enemies were the middle classes and the aesthetic ugliness it associated with an industrial economy powered by bourgeois energies.

And the top leadership of enterprises and personnel exchanges between the lower and middle classes operating deep.

But most of it will be created by selling traditional European and American brands to the developing world's growing middle classes.

It has widespread support among Egypt's middle classes, and its members control many of the country's professional organizations.

Like the Tory Radicals, today's liberal gentry see the untamed middle classes as the true enemy.

A public health concern not for the rich or for the middle classes, but it is becoming a public health concern for the poor.

By exposing the shame and corruption of American public life the muckrakers fired the righteous indignation of the middle classes.

It has enriched bankers and chief executives, but left the middle classes at once no better off today and more insecure about tomorrow.

So far, this report has looked at what the new middle classes have in common, treating them as a homogeneous group.

As the middle classes turned to claret, so the upper classes abandoned this increasingly common tipple in favour of hock and champagne.

There's no doubt that China and India's growing middle classes are consuming more and different types of food.

Greater job insecurity among the voting middle classes has increased demand for safety nets.

The technological advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich.

The middle classes tend to hire decoration companies, which subcontract to whichever construction firm pays the best kickbacks.

Over the past two years, sections of the urban middle classes in China and India have been consumed by a fever for buying shares.

Beef was widely served by the middle classes as the central dish of the Christmas dinner until well into the 19th century.

The resonances with contemporary America were powerful: the working and middle classes have once again been holed by the big banks.

As affluence spread worldwide in the 1990s, the middle classes began to wear cashmere and Mr. Yrthashun grew prosperous.

But the real boon for many emerging-market banks has been the rise of a credit culture among the middle classes.

Unsolicited text messages from immigration firms have become a standard feature of life for Beijing's upper-middle classes.

Yes, demand for air travel is set to continue booming among the rising Asian middle classes.

But who, as a patrician British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once loftily asked, are these middle classes?

For China's new middle classes, the piano represents prestige in an officially classless society.

The new, expanding middle classes in emerging industrialized nations are an exciting opportunity for the travel industry.

They are worried about the growing gap between the upper- and middle-classes in the United States.

Economically liberal and socially conservative, Mr Lacalle has strong support in the business sector and within the middle classes.

The Argentinian middle classes had lived better than Europeans.

At its simplest, parenthood exposes even the affluent middle classes to public services, from hospitals to day-care centres or libraries.

Their expanding middle classes have fewer children, but both suffer from gender imbalances because families often abort female fetuses.

The third is the Syntagma protesters, who speak for the squeezed middle classes of the private sector as well as Greece's jobless youth.

Their jingoism alienated supporters among Bangkok's middle classes. They got little kudos for boycotting the elections (see article).

To people of the upper and middle classes, such independence came only with the ownership of property.

Soon after acquiring democracy, urban middle classes often grasp the frustrating reality that political change costs them power.

In practice, emerging markets may be said to have two middle classes.

China's growing middle classes are demanding higher quality products and favoring the convenience of processed and packaged food.

In Jane Austen's time there was another, even more worrying social compulsion that afflicted the middle classes: crazyidleness.

Booming middle classes in Brazil, China, India and other emerging economies are creating legions of new international travelers.

Buying the asset management business would enable Mr Li to tap into the vast riches of Asia's fast-growing upper and middle classes.

In fact, the urban middle classes are no more likely to own a business than the poor.

But guarding schools effectively is difficult and loads a big burden on those unable to attract the high-fee-paying middle classes.

In the longer run, both Thailand's urban middle classes and its poor must accept the need for painful change.

The rise and rise of residential investment by the middle classes, especially in the UK and US, has accentuated this trend.

The resident space of the townhouse is a space for middle-classes to blazon forth their self-personalities.

The PAD's thuggish tactics have lost it much of the support it once had among Bangkok's middle classes.

For years, the new middle classes have been politically quiescent in emerging markets.

The professional middle classes as a whole are having children later.

The emergence of Asian middle classes means even banks traditionally focused on wholesale services are beefing up.

Unilever, whose roots in the region go back to 1888, foresees the new middle classes accounting for the lion's share of global turnover.

The initial boost to equity prices was good for the wealthy but the subsequent inflation was bad for the middle classes.

Safety concerns have driven the middle classes into gated compounds and tourists into all-inclusive resorts.

The Indian middle classes want to seize back what they consider to have been taken from them.

On balance, the report is optimistic about the prospects of countries where the middle classes are growing.

Political liberalization was inching along too slowly to satisfy the intelligentsia and the new middle classes in the cities.

The middle classes, however defined, must take their share too, and paying well-off people to look after their children is silly.

But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.

China and India are getting richer. And it appears their new middle classes want all the things we want: cars, washing machines, even meat.

How will America's middle classes vote in the midterm elections in a couple of days' time?

Mostly authoritarian regimes, the state capitalists also keep a lid on politics by using growth to co-opt their middle classes.

The country wants to meet strong demand among Asia's new middle classes for English-language schooling.

But it is not just the young and the metropolitan middle classes who are walking away from wedded bliss.

The upper and middle classes who can afford air tickets, even for domestic travel, are still a small minority of the Chinese population.

The next 20 years will make the 19th-century post-industrial revolution expansion of the middle classes seem like a mere ripple.

The middle classes mocked his inarticulacy and his one inelegant feature, a strangulated high-pitched voice.

New Labour's compact with the aspiring middle classes has collapsed, and what happens next is anyone's guess.

And although their average incomes are still low, their middle classes are expanding fast, creating a vast new market.

That's not only too simplistic but the middle classes, never a homogenous group, have become ever more fractured during the recession.

Africans and Asians appear in this film only to suffer; the growing middle classes of India are not visible even peripherally.

It is, they say, "poised to join the list of developed countries with large middle classes and non-democratic regimes" .

It is easier to bully smokers because smoking is a habit that has become increasingly concentrated in the lower and lower-middle classes.

They are different from traditional bourgeois and proletariat. They are so-called middle classes.

the middle classes were dominated and humiliated by the nobility .

Poverty is falling, the middle classes are expanding and asset markets are bubbling.

In part, that is the result of the growing affluence of India's emerging middle classes.

But these are merely lifestyle choices for the affluent middle-classes, a matter of aesthetics, and nothing to do with the real issues.

Yet Mr Miliband's courage is asymmetric. He is full of fierce plans for those squeezing the middle classes from above.

The concerns of the middle classes, about the future of their health or assets, brought a different kind of protest.

Five items the Middle Kingdom's growing middle classes are desperate to get their hands on.

There is also a spate of innovations targeted at middle classes less affluent than those of the developed world.

He knows that even the middle classes love a bargain and says: "No bottle of wine is worth more than $10, in my opinion. "

Latin America's middle classes are importing consumer goods from China, while the countries export iron ore, copper and soybeans to China.

The middle classes are favourably disposed to wards the new military junta.

HAROLD MACMILLAN, a patrician British prime minister who came to power in the 1950s, famously asked who are the middle classes.

With their economic power and hunger for new experiences, China's restless middle classes have conjured a new Europe into life.

China's and India's mass middle classes have seen only uninterrupted growth.

It is relatively easy for the comfortable middle classes to play down the need for economic growth.

The hardest issue of all to tackle will be the perks that currently flow to the middle classes and the elderly.

The second big shift is that the developing world's middle classes are taking to the air in their millions.

A third reason for worry, argues Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution, is that the middle classes might "misinterpret the recession" .

The expats' mere presence, according to Mr Wei, attracts Shanghai's growing middle classes, who are eager to sample a western lifestyle.

Its setting is emphatically antipodean and so, too, are its voices: eight characters drawn from Melbourne's polyglot middle classes.

In the same way, the rise of India and China has brought dignity to their middle classes.

And so the French middle classes acquired second homes in greater abundance than anywhere else outside Scandinavia.

Does the spirit of capitalism burn in the new middle classes?

The middle classes are also developing in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Kenya, and they are adopting new consumption patterns.

If their businesses are so starved of capital, why do the middle classes not invest more in them?

George Grayson says Mexicans in the upper and middle classes, who have been absent from this effort, need to do more and pay more.

Companies catering to China's burgeoning middle classes should have a field day.

The middle classes have built up capital.

The middle classes in poor countries are giving up health care and cutting out meat so they can eat three meals a day.

So is it simply a case that shops serving the middle classes are those that have been hit?

We are talking about the new middle classes in emerging markets.

A third distinction is that millionaires are generous while the middle classes can't afford to be.

It is a society of the new middle classes.

The government knows how to cater to the interests of Chinese elites and the emerging middle classes, and builds on their fear of populism.

Even before the global credit crunch, many multinationals were pinning huge hopes on the new middle classes in China and India.

Do the new middle classes share those virtues?

This says a lot about the appetite of the wealthy and middle classes in China for German luxury cars.

You have a growing obesity problem. Alcoholism is gaining a grip on the middle classes.

A spokesman for Warwick said the university expected the programme to be hugely popular among the sub-continent's burgeoning middle-classes

Of those belonging to the right-wing, on the other hand, just one came from the middle classes.

The second is that millionaires are interested in ideas while the middle classes are interested in things and other people.

The middle classes also matter because they are natural swing voters.

In the past 15 years the middle classes have supported the party because of what it has done for them.

The hope is that expanding middle classes in China, India and other developing economies will buy more.

By 2025, 520m people will join the upper middle classes, earning Rmb40, 000-Rmb100, 000.

Society could be divided into upper, middle and lower classes. Most people in Japan think they belong to the middle classes.

Much of that has to do with the wealth and boredom of America's upper and middle classes

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