Thursday, January 24, 2013

Saint Lucia’s Middle-Class, What About Them?

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

A COLONIAL HANG-OVER.WHY SHOULD THERE BE ANY CLASS SYSTEM IN ST. LUCIA?

January 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Anonymous said...

If so let,s join the caste system.

January 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Jessica said...

You depend on a two party system. You teach your readers to believe that's all we can become. You even fool yourself into believing that without the a two party system St Lucia can't run. How can you expect to reap what you did not attempt to change.

January 24, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Anonymous said...

Professor Micah, who are the middle class in our society?

January 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Middle class? What middle class? Are middle-income earners constitute a class that can drive or lead growth in our economy?

My! Do we need a serious education in economics.

January 25, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Anonymous said...

I'm curious as to what criteria is used to determine the middle class in St. Lucia.

January 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Anonymous said...

ery good observation Micah and I think this subject make good for a healthy debate except that no one give a dam, at least not the government, but can one truly rely on statistics from asat. Lucia except it is conducted privately. By this I mean onducted not by the Department of Statistics.

January 25, 2013 at 6:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Some people are just idiots who want to appose, chastise, even contradict just for the sake of it. They give no facts or anything looking like it. Only conjecture, and asinine statements.

January 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...

6:43 PM you right, these bias people talking as if it is the first time they hear about middle class, and it is Micah hiel invented that word. What nonsense, "There is no such thing as middle class in St Lucia" Are some of these people serious?

January 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM
Anonymous said...

Every country has some sort of middle class, however, there is a criteria to determine who falls within the middle class in the different countries. Who constitutes the middle class in St. Lucia? Is it people at a certain income level? What is that? If you're going to tell us about the middle class in St. Lucia, tell us who falls within that group. Give us a rough estimate of the percentage of St. Lucians who make up that middle class. Maybe I missed that part in the article.

January 26, 2013 at 7:41 AM
Anonymous said...

Every citizen should be made to declare with tangible evidence his or her assets and the manner in which it was attained. After this is done we can categorize into class. This would also reveal the fraudulent means by which some got theirs. Alot of politicians, past and present would be had pressed to deliver any legitimate evidence by which they amassed so much wealth in a four year or even eight year period with the salaries they make. Failure to provide adequate legitimate proof would result in seizure of assets by the state, thus giving the sagging economy a mighty boost. At this very moment, the prime minister of Dominica is under scrutiny by the state for eight million dollars worth of beach side property he owns. The courts want to know how he was able to acquire all that with the salary he makes. The same should happen here in St Lucia. We tolerate tooo much borball.

January 26, 2013 at 8:36 AM
Anonymous said...

If he owns $8.0 million dollars of beachfront, then he may be still paying for it by way of a mortgage. This however, in the economic context of Dominica, and on a percapita income basis, may place him well beyond the middle income cluster and therefore, the middle-class in his country.

Therefore, he may not at all be representative of the middle-class, there in Dominica, or here in Saint Lucia.

The reasoning and logic behind the use of the term "middle class" and the focus of the source article by Micah, as used in this, an ILO document, is obviously lost on most of the commentators above.

Micah has surfaced an important issue which cannot be adequately dealt with in a forum like this and perhaps not even Luciantalk which has apparently now been sadly abandoned for good.

Fundamental to a better understanding of that focus, is greater familiarity with the economic role of the middle-class in economics generally, and specifically in the context of national development. In our case, it may well be: "Every rosary has its own cross".

January 26, 2013 at 9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Business Dictionary definition of 'middle class':

Social class usually comprising of white-collar (non-manual) workers, lower-level managers, and small business owners, often constituting about one-third of the employed population of a country. The income of this class is higher than that of the working-class but lower than that of the upper-middle class (doctors, engineers, lawyers, middle-size business owners) and upper class.

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/middle-class.html#ixzz2J71zo1a3

January 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM

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