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For example, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) offer free or low-cost, high-quality higher-education classes to hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet, making it easier to learn whatever – and wherever – they want.
Over the long term, owing to increasing populations, expanding middle classes, and rapid productivity gains, emerging-market economies that pursue sound policies will continue to grow much faster than developed economies.
In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey, rapidly growing and increasingly assertive middle classes want a say in politics and greater economic opportunity.
But these countries’ rising middle classes have begun to move their political systems in another direction – a testament to the power that they now wield.
Indeed, the breadth of the opposition to Morsi reflects a major global tendency toward the empowerment of the educated and connected middle classes, whose members tend to be suspicious of political parties and demand more direct political participation.
Those prospects will diminish further if the annexationist Jewish Home, with whose domestic platform (a liberal economy, a better deal for the middle classes, and military service for the Orthodox) Lapid fully concurs, joins a Likud-Yesh Atid government.
The middle classes take their cars for granted, while the world’s poor aspire to car ownership as a token and a tool of advancement.
And yet other countries’ growing middle classes want to emulate the American dream – to be able to drive to the country and seal themselves off from city streets, just like Westerners.
Indeed, despite such poignant personal stories and the sheer scale of the carnage, homicide is rarely a subject of public debate in the region, not least because most victims hail predominantly from the region’s invisible, neglected classes.
Sadly, many Latin Americans remain indifferent to the fate of the invisible classes that comprise a majority of murder victims.
Moreover, knowledge-intensive technology has a winner-take-all network effect, whereby hubs seize access to knowledge and power, leaving less-privileged groups, classes, sectors, and regions struggling to compete.
In our book, we estimate that if poor households in Chile had the same access to jobs as the middle classes enjoy, the gap between rich and poor would narrow by half.
Furthermore, the determination to crush dissent affects the urban middle classes, which might otherwise be the strongest proponents of security-sector reform in this area.
Some universities are adding ethics classes to the STEM curriculum.
Nowadays, the world’s top universities teach computer science and engineering classes online.
But in many countries recently wracked by political unrest – Brazil, Chile, Turkey, India, Venezuela, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, and Thailand – it is the urban middle classes that have been manning the barricades.
Likewise, urban students and the middle classes spearheaded the Arab Spring, before losing authority to Islamist forces.
This is not a complete surprise: in many countries, working classes and rural farmers have benefited from per capita income increases and a broadening social safety net, while the middle classes feel the pinch from rising inflation, poor public services, corruption, and intrusive government.
And now the middle classes tend to be more vocal and better politically organized than in the past, in large part because social media allow them to mobilize faster.
Kimura’s theory was simple and elegant, but the classification of mutations into the distinct classes – beneficial, neutral, or harmful – seemed too simple to me.
Slow growth and globalization have divided all European societies – and the United States – into two new classes: those whose education and social capital enable them to cope with today’s globalized economy, and those stuck in low-paid, often transient jobs (and thus most directly affected by competition from legal and illegal immigrants).
Complicating matters further, these problems’ backdrop is likely to change considerably over the next few decades, owing to demographic shifts, population growth, urbanization, migration within and among countries, globalization, trade liberalization, and rapid expansion of middle classes in the developing world.
Years of dictatorship and sanctions decimated Iraq's business and professional classes.
Reconstruction could revive the entrepreneurial classes if small contractors and businesses are given opportunities.
While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious concerns of the world’s working and middle classes about their prospects in the face of the growing concentration of power among economic, financial, and political elites.
Even before the Great Depression, Europe’s enlightened “bourgeois” classes recognized that, to avoid revolution, workers’ rights needed to be protected, wage and labor conditions improved, and a welfare state created to redistribute wealth and finance public goods – education, health care, and a social safety net.
Rigorous math or language classes?
It is a hope held by Americans, in the working and middle classes as well as the working poor, of being lifted to a higher rung on the socioeconomic ladder, not a rise of the ladder itself: the dream of a higher income or social station relative to the average.
Unhealthy, processed foods are more readily available now than ever before, and rising middle classes in China, India, and throughout the region can better afford them.
What the Kirchners have done well is to use the wealth gained from exports to strengthen the economy and improve conditions for the middle and lower classes.
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