The longer-term ascendance of India's middle class, meanwhile, has been charted by the McKinsey Global Institute, which predicts that average incomes will have tripled by 2025, lifting nearly 300m Indians out of poverty and causing the middle class to grow more than tenfold, to 583m.In this section Hail, shareholder!
It is a fascinating era because it was at the beginning of our ascendance into a powerful nation, and Dee was very much involved in building that.
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.Tze Shiung NgKuala LumpurPrime minister's questionsSIR – Shinzo Abe's recent questioning of whether 200,000 "comfort women" were forced into prostitution should come as no surprise ("No comfort for Abe", March 10th).
The implementation of this salary cap, or forced egalitarianism, in 1993 causally correlates to the ascendance of the NFL as America's premier sporting league.Joe Magliolo Dallas, Texas From an American sports fanatic: Thank you for criticising professional sports' obsession with egalitarianism.
Ten years ago, in the wake of Japan's stagnation and the Asian financial crisis, Mr Rajan and Mr Zingales of the University of Chicago noted the "slow but steady ascendance of the public markets" and wondered if it heralded "the eventual supremacy of the arm's-length, market-based, Anglo-Saxon system".Thadvancence has dramatically reversed in the past two years (see chart 6).
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE dollar's ascendance to the rank of world's most important currency is often remembered as having been slow and gradual, mirroring the decline of sterling and Britain's historic economic dominance.
China's ascendance highlights three areas of reforms.
And so a second American World Cup, which might have truly set the seal on football's ascendance in that nation, was passed over for a Qatari one.That decision might be overturned, which would be all to the good.
The ascendance of the Pippinids, Carolingian rule, and the power struggles in the 9th century furnished these magnates, on whom those in power were dependent, with a means of enriching themselves and augmenting their political and social influence.
Another major trend of the 1990s was the ascendance of contemporary art, which became the art market's biggest growth area.
Other commentators questioned whether the ascendance of global cities implies state decline along zero-sum lines.
