That figure will climb steeply as more than 2 billion people living in India, China and other developing nations raise their standard of living.

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As its citizens raise their standard of living, we should expect much will happen.

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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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But many Papuans believe that special autonomy is useless and that it has failed to raise their standard of living, says BBC Indonesia correspondent Karishma Vaswani.

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

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Immigrants raise our standard of living through their productive work.

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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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