Meanwhile, the number of upper-middle class adults—with wealth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million—has more than doubled since 2000, from 208 million to 583 million.

Some 4 billion people are now part of the world's middle class, and they are becoming crucial advocates for tackling climate change.

A new tool by the Pew Research Centre can now tell someone if they are considered to belong to the global middle class–a group that has been drastically reduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The global middle class is the key engine of growth in the international economy. But it could be stalling—and that's a big problem ...

The middle class is shrinking and its economic power diminishing in the U.S. and other rich countries, a development that threatens political stability and economic growth, according to a report ...

The global middle class is more unstable and less liberal than we thought.

Homi Kharas, an expert on the global middle class, estimated in a recent study that 3.2 billion people, or 42 percent of the total world population, are now in the global middle class.

The global middle class is shrinking as a combination of wage stagnation, rising living costs and job insecurity hit prosperity in the world’s leading economies, in turn fuelling political ...

Globalization and the Rise of the Global Middle Class CAP Partner in Britain Examines Rising Living Standards Across the Globe Visiting Fellow Will Straw talks about a program at the Institute for ...

But real hourly compensation was left in the dust. It’s easy to blame “globalization” for the stagnation of middle incomes, but technological advances have played as much if not a greater role.

The American middle class is still standing after the economic shocks it absorbed over the last decade, and it is thanks to globalization. Globalization's two key elements are trade and immigration.

While middle class incomes have, in fact, risen in the past twenty years, these last two decades have been less kind to the middle class than previous ones. Many in the middle class, tired of ...