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Research Unit for Political Economy

India’s middle class is almost impossible to define

There is no accepted definition of middle class status in terms of an income range. Different countries have their own, very different, poverty lines, and they are fiercely contested.

Research Unit for Political Economy
· Dec 24, 2015 · 08:30 pm
India’s middle class is actually the world’s poor

India’s middle class lives barely or not far above India’s poverty line, and below international poverty lines.

Research Unit for Political Economy
· Dec 23, 2015 · 02:30 pm