Overseas remittances created Pakistan’s rural middle class via conspicuous consumption

Evidence

In the 1980s and 1990s, remittances helped to created a new rural middle class in Pakistan that could participate in conspicuous consumption both through duty-free shopping in the Middle East and at new retail centers in cities throughout South Asia. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 502

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, striking fact: Gulf remittances fabricated a conspicuous-consuming rural middle class in Pakistan, shopping duty-free in the Middle East.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 502