concerns over a diminishing middle class and the viability of mass consumption society. This study proposes a model with non … sustain a middle class and necessity producers inclined to support AI-driven automation under minimal redistribution. The …

The Philippines has set an ambitious goal of becoming a predominantly middle-class society free of poverty by 2040 … trajectory. Growing the middle class is more closely related to new wealth creation rather than typically associated themes such … Annual Public Policy Conference (APPC) provides an updated profile of the Philippine middle-class. Using an income …

development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of … significant international sanctions. By comparing the middle-class size of this counterfactual Iran with the actual Iran that … faced major economic sanctions, our results indicate that the annual middle-class size would have been approximately 11 …