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Roads, bridges, power grids, and water systems fueled industrialization and lifted living standards.
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Maurice Obeid, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Measured in terms of purchasing power parity (used to compare the economic well-being, living standards, and production volumes of countries by adjusting for differences in price levels), the EU's share of world GDP has fallen from 27.5% in 1980 to 14.1% in 2025.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Stagnating living standards and a dearth of research and ideas among them.
—Daniel Moss, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2025
Despite massive increases in computing power and the rising popularity of personal computers, government figures showed that over-all output per worker, a key determinant of wages and living standards, had stagnated for more than a decade.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Maurice Obeid, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Measured in terms of purchasing power parity (used to compare the economic well-being, living standards, and production volumes of countries by adjusting for differences in price levels), the EU's share of world GDP has fallen from 27.5% in 1980 to 14.1% in 2025.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Stagnating living standards and a dearth of research and ideas among them.
—Daniel Moss, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2025
Despite massive increases in computing power and the rising popularity of personal computers, government figures showed that over-all output per worker, a key determinant of wages and living standards, had stagnated for more than a decade.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Living standard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20standard. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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