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.
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