Unlike most of the big cities in France, Marseille lacks a sizable middle class to supports art and culture.
What it has yet to prove is that it can become a stable society with an economy driven by a solid and sizable middle class.
Mexico is trying to rid itself of corrupt practices, and Turkey's sizable middle class is resisting the fear tactics of its president.
Spread among a handful of neighborhoods, the minority population includes both the poor and a sizable middle class employed by the state government.
"People are able to get into these funds" at prices still little changed from 2003, the middle of seven consecutive years of positive performance, the longest stretch for any sizable asset class.
It had a pretty sizable middle class, it had the foundation of civil society, even though it had suffered under two successive dictators who had crushed organized political dissent pretty systematically.
Nonetheless, the high rate of literacy and the sizable middle class helped to sustain an avid readership for the large number of periodicals (notably business and economics) published in Tunisia.
"I think there's a significant long-term opportunity in India given the natural growth rate of the economy and the emergence of a sizable middle class," Gandhi explains.
In 1959, Cuba was the West Indies' most developed, prosperous island with a sizable middle class and a living standard that was one of the highest in Latin America.
With its sizable black middle class and political structure, the city was a shock.
