Stuck in the middle is fiscal policy failing the middle class? /
"Examines both economic and social public policy initiatives in its assertion that enhancing the welfare of people in developed and developing nations requires an explicit focus on the middle class"--Provided by publisher.
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Overview : fiscal policy, distribution, and the middle class / Antonio Estache and Danny Leipzinger
- Stylized facts on the middle class and the development process / Andrés Solimano
- The future of global income inequality / Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael E. De Hoyos, and Denis Medvedev
- The scope and limits of subsidies / Markus Goldstein and Antonio Estache
- Policies for lower global wealth inequality / James Davies
- Can happiness research help fiscal policy? / Carol Graham
- The politics of effective and sustainable redistribution / Evelyne Huber, Jennifer Pribble, and John D. Stephens
- Contributors.