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The Yellow Vests are primarily from the lower middle and working classes, rather than from the very bottom of the social ladder.
Losing this sector of the economy to the hyper-competitive Chinese will be a hard hit, as textile exports are often the first step on the development ladder.
A “good” party may thus try to forestall that outcome by taking a step down the moral ladder, precipitating a race to the bottom.
But China has drawn from the same standard playbook that developed countries used when they climbed the economic ladder.
Whether this amounts to removing the bottom rungs on the ladder of development remains to be seen.
For decades, vying for the world’s low-cost manufacturing business seemed to be the most promising way for low-income countries to climb the development ladder.
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.
Until a few decades ago, democratic leaders had to climb the electoral ladder, rung by rung, acquiring along the way a facility for retail politics, stump speaking, and the demands of assembling a working majority.
In Europe, French politicians moved up the parliamentary ladder in the Fourth Republic, and could aspire to climb to the presidency in the Fifth.
After all, women have ascended the political ladder faster in many other countries than they have in the US.
Though many will deny it, we are always comparing ourselves with others, and hoping to climb the social ladder.
Larger firms are more capable of pooling resources for research and development, which is the key to China’s aspirations to climb the value ladder.
Many college-educated workers simply have been forced down the occupational ladder into jobs traditionally performed by lower-skilled workers, who in turn have been pushed further down the occupational ladder or out of the labor force altogether.
Vemula’s death has reminded Indians once again that the more than 300 million who belong to the lowest castes, as well as the “tribals” or indigenous people, still face discrimination, prejudice, hostility, and even violence on each step of the social ladder.
Embezzlement and misappropriation of astronomical sums of public funds would have been impossible without accomplices to provide protection and help one another ascend the political ladder.
For those who believe that a society should offer its members equal opportunity, and that anyone who works hard can climb higher on the socioeconomic ladder, redistribution is unnecessary and unfair.
With billions of people still below the first rung of the digital ladder, the climb to prosperity is becoming more challenging than ever.
Kenya’s ubiquitous mobile banking service M-Pesa appears to have enabled poor women to move out of subsistence agriculture into non-farm businesses, providing a significant bump up the income ladder at the very bottom.
But women still don’t comprise a large enough share of the workers in the clean-tech industry, and those who do work in that industry are generally low on the job ladder.
Russia recognizes that newer donors have experiences, ideas, and resources that can help all countries climb up the ladder of opportunity.
Even for women who do get on the academic ladder, the climb is slowed by inadequate opportunities for grants, promotions, and leadership.
Several Central European countries have achieved per capita GDP levels (measured in terms of purchasing power parity) that place them on the lower rungs of the eurozone’s income ladder.
It turns out that there is no such thing as executive stress, and heart disease is far more common – and deadlier – in people further down the socioeconomic ladder.
In the face of growing inequality, they saw the gap between rich and poor as just a side effect, and possibly even a spur for innovation, aspiration, and creativity for those lower down the ladder.
They may also have to redistribute income and strengthen social safety nets to protect better those at the bottom of the ladder.
It may not be dignified to expect immigrant workers to do these "dirty" jobs, but to these workers such jobs offer a step on the ladder of hope as they help to keep advanced economies and societies functioning.
To avoid such a future, Asian countries need to change the rules of the game, providing opportunities for youth, whatever their background, to ascend the income ladder.
It also incites insecurity in the middle class because it signals that the risks of falling down the social ladder are increasing at the very moment an upward climb becomes more difficult.
Like Japan 40 years ago, Chinese production is moving up the ladder to higher value-added products.
While Park derives some of her power from her family pedigree, she has proven to be an astute and seasoned politician – one who climbed the Grand National Party’s leadership ladder over the last two decades to emerge as a national figure.
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