Stuck in the middle is fiscal policy failing the middle class? / [electronic resource] : Antonio Estache, Danny Leipziger, editors. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009. - viii, 199 p. : ill.

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 / Andres 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Fiscal policy--Case studies.
Middle class--Government policy--Case studies.


Electronic books.

HJ192.5 / .S78 2009

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