Episode Synopsis "Happiness, protests and the emerging middle class from a comparative perspective "

Carol Graham (Brookings Institution) gives the first talk in the third plenary of the The Emerging Middle Class in Latin America: Causes, Challenges and Opportunities conference.

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• Closing Remarks
• Closing plenary
• Education reforms for the consolidation of the middle class
• Education and the future of social mobility
• Political consequences of the new middle class
• How sustainable is the growth of the new middle class? Introduction
• Middle class-based elite: the Costa Rican experience
• The middle class and insecurity in Latin America
• Happiness, protests and the emerging middle class from a comparative perspective
• The impact of the middle class introduction
• The experience of Brazil in comparative perspective
• Mobility, vulnerability, and middle classes in Latin America
• The growing (but vulnerable) middle class in Latin America
• The emerging middle class: How many? Why? Introduction
• Opening plenary. The Emerging Middle Class in Latin America
• Welcome panel