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And while researchers know that a country’s economic system dramatically impacts people’s living standards, less is known about how attitudes toward these systems have changed over time.
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H. Sami Karaca, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Decades of improved living standards have raised it to 78 years, according to the U.N. Population Division.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
What Americans needed then (as Eccles understood) was to boost the share of production distributed to households in the form of wages, interest, and transfers—which would, in turn, raise living standards, boost domestic demand, and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign consumption.
—Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
More business investment is key to delivering a sustained boost to economic growth and improving living standards, which will ultimately be necessary for Milei to enjoy ongoing public support and for his party to win a bigger majority in midterm elections late next year.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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H. Sami Karaca, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Decades of improved living standards have raised it to 78 years, according to the U.N. Population Division.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
What Americans needed then (as Eccles understood) was to boost the share of production distributed to households in the form of wages, interest, and transfers—which would, in turn, raise living standards, boost domestic demand, and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign consumption.
—Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
More business investment is key to delivering a sustained boost to economic growth and improving living standards, which will ultimately be necessary for Milei to enjoy ongoing public support and for his party to win a bigger majority in midterm elections late next year.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Living standard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20standard. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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