India, with its nearly 9 percent economic growth and rapidly increasing middle class, has become the latest popular destination for global companies and low-growth Western governments.
The politician, whose popularity stood at 77% two months ago, tells the magazine: "What I want my legacy to be is this country to be increasing middle class, to be highly competitive and highly educated".
When he left office, America had a prosperous, growing economy, increasing middle class incomes, and budget surpluses as far as the eye could see.
Increased middle class prosperity has not eradicated chronic hunger, particularly in rural areas blighted by the suicides of farmers who lose out to agribusiness.
It is intended to shine a light on the apparently narrowing range of voices in the arts, and what seems to be an increasing middle-class monopoly.
So as I suggested in the speech, what I want to make sure everybody in Washington is obsessed with is how are we growing the economy, how are we increasing middle-class incomes and middle-class wages, and increasing middle-class security.
An increasing middle-class "brain drain" of British professionals moving abroad to live and work is raising concerns about future skills shortages in the UK, Home Office research has found.
Political considerations aside, the Center for American Progress, which is commonly viewed as an arm of the Democratic Party and has strong ties to the Clinton campaign, maintains that funding paid family leave is eminently doable without increasing middle-class taxes.
At that time, millions of Americans tried table wine for the first time, evidently as a result of a rise in foreign travel, the Francophile accents of the Kennedy years and increased middle-class wealth.
In January 1921, during a congress in Livorno, the left wing of the Socialists split away to found the Italian Communist Party (Partito Communista d'Italia, later Partito Communista Italiano [PCI]; now Democrats of the Left [Democratici di Sinistra]), which increased middle-class alarm.
Although that's certainly not enough to bring down the unemployment rate significantly or increase middle-class incomes, it does suggest that the economy is not currently on the cusp of a double-dip recession.
