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Aug 06, 2014
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Behind all the handwringing in the West about a declining middle class and growing income gap lurks a stark fact – while a new middle class has emerged in resurgent Asia, middle classes in the West have seen no or very little improvement.

Globalization may have succeeded in creating wealth, but its failure to enrich the middle class in the West risks pus…

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