As the emerging economies raise the standard of living for their populations, people move into the middle class.

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The United Nations has pushed all of us to think more strategically about the best ways to help raise the standard of living of all people.

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Pepper: And as you raise the standard of living for people, and expose a greater percentage of the population to, what we would call, Western standards of living, those folks are going to want the same thing as everybody else has.

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After being revived, he surveys the humble economy and starts advising the islanders on how to raise their standard of living to American levels.

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Only by improving the productivity of farming could we raise our standard of living and emerge as an industrial power.

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The idea here is to communicate that ultimate goal of economic production is to raise folks standard of living, by which we mean their level of consumption.

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Thanks, however, to Chinese imports that raise our standard of living, Americans are able to save and invest more of their earnings on the way to eventually having the means to buy from you.

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So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.

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