What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
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- Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo, 2008. "What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 22(2), pages 3-28, Spring.
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Keywords
consumption; development; investment; middle class;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2008-01-05 (Development)
- NEP-ENT-2008-01-05 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LTV-2008-01-05 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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