TY  - BOOK
AU  - Estache,Antonio
AU  - Leipziger,Danny M.
TI  - Stuck in the middle: is fiscal policy failing the middle class? 
SN  - 9780815702849
AV  - HJ 192.5 S932 2009
U1  - 339.5/2 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Fiscal policy
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Política fiscal
KW  - Estudios de casos
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Clase media
KW  - Política de gobierno
KW  - Estudios de caso
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -