The region is also now estimated to have grown 0.1% in the second quarter rather than stagnating, as previously estimated.
Bill Gates or JK Rowling have earned more than CEOs or authors in the past, while incomes in the middle class or lower middle classes are often stagnating below what previous generations could expect.
Mandelson said that in his initial embrace of globalisation he had taken for granted it would generate rising incomes for all but that instead the middle class were facing stagnating incomes and unacceptable levels of inequality within countries.
Technology was supposed to bring us liberation from mundane labour, but instead we are as occupied as ever with work; and despite technological innovation surging forward, productivity and wages growth are stagnating in most of the western world.
In rich country after rich country, under governments both of the left and of the right, the biggest worry for voters is that middle-class incomes are stagnating and the job-for-life is dead.
He calls stagnating middle incomes an "emergency .To some alarmed Labour colleagues, Mr Miliband gives the impression of seeing capitalism as a bad system that needs fixing with regulation, and globalisation as the internationalisation of capitalism.
The country is stagnating politically and economically.
But some people worry that the industry has grown too fast for its own good.Output is now stagnating, mainly because of the prevalence of diseases among the fish.
Thailand's economy is stagnating and opponents of military rule remain legion.
He despairs at Europe's "stagnating economy", contrasting it with America's relative success since 1995.
It is stagnating secularly, suffering from weak domestic demand while stuck with interest rates near zero.
