From the Article:
"In some ways, what drives protests in any given country will vary, but if you look around at Brazil and Turkey, it is consistent with the narrative of what happens when you get a growing middle class," said Christian Meyer, research associate at the Center for Global Development. "Expectations rise and people are more concerned with issues beyond economic growth."
The Center for Global Development's research suggests that amid the protest movements in countries including Brazil, what we are witnessing is twofold: one is the growing voice of the actual middle class over an increasing number of issues, but less well known and studied is the group between the poor and the middle class: "the strugglers," as he calls them.
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