Publication
Oct 2012
This paper outlines indicative data on trends relating to poverty and the non-poor by different expenditure groups throughout the World. It critically reviews the recent literature that contentiously labels such groups as “middle class.” The paper argues that such groups are neither extremely poor nor secure from poverty and that such groups are worthy of closer examination because their expansion may potentially have wider societal implications related, for example, to taxation, governance, and—ultimately—domestic politics.
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Author | Andy Sumner |
Series | CGD Working Papers |
Issue | 309 |
Publisher | Center for Global Development (CGD) |
Copyright | © 2012 Center for Global Development (CGD) |