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" Stuck in the middle : "
Antonio Estache, Danny Leipziger, editors
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700929
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b523118
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Stuck in the middle : : is fiscal policy failing the middle class? /\ Antonio Estache, Danny Leipziger, editors
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, [2009]
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, ©2009
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viii, 199 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0815702841
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: 9780815702849
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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"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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Fiscal policy, Case studies
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Middle class-- Government policy, Case studies
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HJ192.5.S78 2009
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Estache, Antonio
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Leipziger, Danny M
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