Meanwhile, the teeming youth and middle class sectors are relentlessly pushing for accountable governance, better public services, and the fair distribution of newfound wealth.
It remains a largely white, middle-class sector and its least diverse department tends to be creative.
And corporations profit enormously by replacing middle class public sector jobs with ones without benefits or security.
The inclusion of ordinary citizens -- poor, female, Afro-Brazilian, indigenous, middle class, private sector -- in multiple forms of political participation and economic production has deepened Brazilian democracy.
As the author of a widely read column in the weekend supplement of the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, he wrote a column under a title that became his catchphrase: "Where's the money?" He wrote: "This is the big question asked by Israel's middle class, the same sector on whose behalf I am going into politics.
Using their dichotomy, the Philippines clearly falls within the extractive category, whereby the core-elite have blocked appropriate policies, which would have made the country a true democracy, anchored by a large middle class, an entrepreneurial sector, and strong institutions spurring growth and innovation.
Perhaps most importantly, urban environs have a middle class and formal sector that support commerce, promote stability, and anticipate change for the better.
There is probably a tendency to provide more elbow room for a rapidly growing intellectual middle class and educated sectors of the population, which, after all, will be measured in tens, possibly hundreds of millions.
"But the retail sector is absolutely booming with growth from the rising middle class, and the financial sector is becoming a bigger proportion of the market as well now – so I am not bearish at all.
And Detroit, like most other big cities, would have almost no black middle class without the public sector, which offered decent employment when many private sector companies shut them out.
