Holdings: The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development

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The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development

Modern political economy stresses "society's polarization" as a determinant of development outcomes. Among the most common dorms of social conflict are class polarization, and ethnic polarization. A middle class consensus is defined...

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Main Author:	Easterly, William
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AGRICULTURE AVERAGE LEVEL BACKWARD PARTS BALANCED GROWTH BETTER HEALTH BLACK MARKET BLACK MARKET PREMIUM CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL INVESTMENT CITIZENS CIVIL WAR CLASS LINES CLASS POLARIZATION CLEAN WATER COMMUNITY INCOME INEQUALITY CONSUMERS CORRUPTION COVARIANCE MATRIX CROSS-COUNTRY DATA CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES CROSS-COUNTRY INCOME CROSS-COUNTRY STUDIES DEBT DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENCES DEVELOPMENT DISADVANTAGE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSES DISTRIBUTIVE GOODS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EFFECTS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORIANS ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMICS LITERATURE EDUCATION SPENDING ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL GROWTH LITERATURE EMPIRICAL SECTION EMPIRICAL WORK ENDOGENOUS GROWTH ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODEL ENDOGENOUS OUTCOMES ENDOGENOUS SEGREGATION ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ESTIMATION METHOD ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC HOMOGENEITY EXOGENOUS COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS EXOGENOUS FACTORS EXOGENOUS VARIABLE EXTERNALITY FACTOR ENDOWMENTS FOREIGN AID GDP GDP PER CAPITA GEOGRAPHIC DISADVANTAGE GROWTH GROWTH EFFECT GROWTH INCREASE GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION GROWTH REGRESSIONS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HETEROSKEDASTICITY HIGH INCOME INEQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DIFFERENTIALS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME EQUATION INCOME INCREASE INCOME QUINTILES INCOME REGRESSIONS INCOME SHARE INCOMES INDUSTRIALIZATION INEQUALITY INEQUALITY EQUATION INFANT MORTALITY INFRASTRUCTURE CAPITAL INTEREST GROUP LAND INEQUALITY LANDOWNERS LORD LEVELS OF INCOME LIFE EXPECTANCY LIQUIDITY LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL SCHOOL FINANCE LOG INCOME LOG INFLATION LONG RUN LONG-RUNNING CONFLICT LOW SHARE LOWER INCOME M2 MACROECONOMICS MASS EDUCATION MEDIAN VOTER MIDDLE CLASS MIDDLE CLASS CONSENSUS MIDDLE CLASS CONSENSUS HYPOTHESIS MIDDLE CLASS INCOME SHARE MIDDLE CLASS SHARE MIDDLE CLASS SOCIETY MIDDLE INCOME SHARE MIDDLE QUINTILES MILITARY MAN MINIMUM MIDDLE CLASS INCOME SHARE NATIONAL POLICIES NEIGHBORHOOD EXTERNALITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SEGREGATION NEOCLASSICAL MODEL NON-OIL COMMODITY NON-OIL COMMODITY EXPORTERS OIL EXPORTING NATIONS OIL PRODUCTION OIL WINDFALL OIL-EXPORTING DUMMY OLD MIDDLE CLASS OLD STATE-SECTOR MIDDLE CLASS OLIGARCHIC ELITE OUTPUT COLLAPSE PARSIMONIOUS EXPLANATION PARSIMONIOUS REGRESSIONS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PER CAPITA INCOME POLARIZED SOCIETIES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL BLOCS POLITICAL COMMUNITY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL RIGHTS POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE LITERATURE POOR GROWTH POOR POLICIES POVERTY RATE PRIMARY ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCTION FUNCTION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC SUPPORT REAL EXCHANGE RATE REAL EXCHANGE RATE OVERVALUATION REDISTRIBUTIVE DEVICE RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS SECONDARY ENROLLMENT SECONDARY ENROLLMENT MIDDLE CLASS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CLUBS SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL DOMINANCE SOCIAL HIERARCHY SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL OUTCOMES STANDARD DEVIATION TELEPHONES TRADE SHOCKS UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/05/437389/middle-class-consensus-economic-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18849

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/05/437389/middle-class-consensus-economic-development
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18849