What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee

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Abstract: Household surveys from 13 developing countries are used to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes†defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or between $6 and $10. [WP No. 163].

Keywords: business; entrepreneur; development; Middle Class; world; developing countries; consumption choices; education investments; employment patterns; per capita (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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