Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development, talked about the importance of building middle-class societies at a lecture entitled "Development in this Century: Building ...

TradeWinds depends on being able to display ads on our services in order to finance our journalism. The page may have been ...

Middle-Class Societies Invest More in Public Education A Stronger Middle Class Is Associated with Higher Levels of Spending on Education. David Madland and Nick Bunker argue that strengthening our ...

“Societies with a strong middle class experience higher levels of social trust but also better educational outcomes, lower crime incidence, better health outcomes and higher life satisfaction ...

Consider that from 1947 to 1979, when the middle class received 54 percent of the nation’s total income on average, the economy grew at a steady clip of 3.7 percent per year.

Class societies flesh out further details Building on the framework of guidance, recommendations and general principles set out in a document like the new ISO code, major class societies such as ...

The swift spread of coronavirus from a group of dance fitness instructors in South Korea offers a cautionary tale as countries worldwide and parts of the U.S. begin to slowly reopen during the ...

From time immemorial, human societies have been run by elites. Someone has to decide who does what, with which and to whom. Exactly how these elites evolve is lost in the mists of time, but evolve ...

A response to Maya John’s ‘Class Societies and Sexual Violence: Towards a Marxist Understanding of Rape’ Background. The text below has come out of various discussions in London, Berlin and Delhi ...