Rocío Baeza is research assistant of the project Middle Income Growth and Development: Social and Political Implications of the Developing World’s ‘New Middle Classes' (MID-DEV), coordinated by Borge Wietzke. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Bonn and she studied her Bachelor in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She was a research assistant at the German Development Institute for one year and she did an internship at the Bank of Spain. Her research interests are mainly focus on Sustainable Development, Inequality, and Policy. In October, she will be enrolled in the Ph.D. programme in Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.