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Stuck in the middle : is fiscal policy failing the middle class? / Antonio Estache, Danny Leipziger, editors.

Contributor(s): Estache, Antonio | Leipziger, Danny M.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: viii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780815702849 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0815702841 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Fiscal policy -- Case studies | Middle class -- Government policy -- Case studiesDDC classification: 339.5/2
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.
Summary: "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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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 339.52 St937 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003708922

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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