In a nutshell, imagine a world where we stop designing products and services with young, urban and affluent populations at the forefront of our minds.
As the report's author, David Belson, says, these countries have small, relatively affluent populations so are fertile ground for private providers.
I think we definitely cater to more affluent populations, and I continually find that we don't have enough good options for those who can't afford posh senior living.
"Our productivity can't remain the same if people are going to eat more," said Mr. da Silva, referring to the growing — and increasingly affluent — populations in China, India and Latin America.
The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didn't, as far as could be discovered, read, either — they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.
Many Asian economies have weathered the global financial and European debt crises relatively well, thanks in part to the fact that their own increasingly affluent populations have become powerful sources of demand.
Among affluent populations, an abundant supply of readily available high-calorie foods and beverages, coupled with increasingly sedentary living habits that markedly reduce caloric needs, can easily lead to overeating.
In affluent populations, where protein intake is greatly in excess of needs, obtaining sufficient good quality protein is usually only a concern for young children who are not provided with animal proteins.
But the right of the gentrifying class to preserve its property values in blocks close to the arena is not one around which much mass support can be rallied in Brooklyn; and, meanwhile, Forest City Ratner has demonstrated a keen understanding of community politics in lining up support among representatives of the neighborhood's less affluent populations.
Recently, Heather Schwartz, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, began studying the public-school system of Montgomery County, Md. The county, a suburb of Washington, has one of the most affluent populations in America and an innovative housing authority that allows low-income citizens to rent homes alongside wealthier neighbors at steeply discounted prices.
Meanwhile, AXA, based in Paris, would retain the operations in other parts of the region — in countries like Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia, where wealth, and the business of advising increasingly affluent populations, is growing faster than in any other part of the world.
