Meanwhile, the teeming youth and middle class sectors are relentlessly pushing for accountable governance, better public services, and the fair distribution of newfound wealth.
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.
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.
The country had a nascent Internet sector, a growing middle class and plenty of potential.
Israel's middle class and the poorer sectors of society have been squeezed by sharp increases in prices of basics like food, water and gasoline in recent years.
Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, sees a national guaranteed income as the most likely endgame in an economy with "more and more people getting pushed out of the middle class into the personal service sector of the economy getting lower and lower wages".
Mr. Chávez said Thursday that it was important to reach out to the middle classes and other sectors of society often alienated by his self-styled Socialist policies.
There is a middle class of sorts.
The emirate also has a thriving private-sector middle class, but it consists almost entirely of foreigners.Considered as a group of consumers, a middle class created by the state is unlikely to behave any differently from a private-sector middle class.
"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.
