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The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

— Joe Lonsdale

People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in…

— Moshe Vardi

The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle…

— Kevin Hassett

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

— Nina Easton

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift -…

— Noam Chomsky

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting…

— Philip Agee

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

— Sergio Ermotti

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always…

— Susan George

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and…

— Dan Quayle

One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see the economy…

— James Vance

People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the…

— Branko Milanovic