Stuck in the middle : is fiscal policy failing the middle class? /
Stuck in the middle : is fiscal policy failing the middle class? /
Antonio Estache, Danny Leipziger, editors.
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
- viii,199 pages : illustrations, tablas, gráficos : 24 cm.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
English
9780815702849 0815702841
Fiscal policy--Case studies.
Política fiscal--Estudios de casos
Middle class--Government policy--Case studies.
Clase media--Política de gobierno--Estados Unidos.--Estudios de caso
Electronic books.
HJ 192.5 / S932 2009
339.5/2
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
English
9780815702849 0815702841
Fiscal policy--Case studies.
Política fiscal--Estudios de casos
Middle class--Government policy--Case studies.
Clase media--Política de gobierno--Estados Unidos.--Estudios de caso
Electronic books.
HJ 192.5 / S932 2009
339.5/2