People are living longer life thanks to significant improvements in living standards, including improved nutrition, access to education and medical care.
Many describe improvements in living standards as the highlight of Mr. Putin's years in power.
They have seen truly dramatic improvements in living standards in the past decade.
The last goals drove some of the most dramatic improvements in living standards the world has ever seen.
Across the developing world, from Brazil to China, obesity is rising as incremental improvements in living standards collide with the persisting effects of deprivation.
Without denying important progress against extreme poverty, many fundamentals appear to be worsening (in-country inequality, climate change, insecurity) meaning that improvements in living standards cannot be sustained.
After decades of only minor improvements in living standards, GDP growth shifted into a much higher gear under the reformist cabinet that came to office in 2004.
Since then, Appalachia has had tons of government cash and seen real improvements in living standards, but it retains large and stubborn pockets of distress.
On the other hand, if the wonders of the new economy have been exaggerated, then we are in for another stretch of meager productivity growth and thus meager improvements in living standards for most Americans.
Those did play a role in making businesses more efficient, and such increases in productivity are the ingredients for long-term improvements in living standards, since they let an economy produce the same number of goods with less effort.
He did not demur, but reeled off the improvements in living standards, GDP, and Russia's sense of itself that had been achieved over the last 12 years as well, and strongly suggested that he intended more to come.
