Stuck in the Middle 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. Contents Foreword 1. Overview: Fiscal Policy, Distribution, and the Middle Class 2. Stylized Facts on the Middle Class and the Development Process 3. The Future of Global Income Inequality 4. The Scope and Limits of Subsidies 5. Policies for Lower Global Wealth Inequality 6. Can Happiness Research Help Fiscal Policy? 7. The Politics of Effective and Sustainable Redistribution. Copyright © 2009 the brookings institution. All rights reserved.SCOPUS: bk.binfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which corporate tax evasion and other vehicles o...
Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people l...
It is sometimes difficult to tell which group is more distressed about the purportedly deteriorating...
1The economics of distribution has long dominated economic policydebates. The issue of income distri...
A vast literature documents that wealth inequality has risen throughout advanced democracies, especi...
In this working paper I define inclusive growth as growth conducive to increasing the size and econo...
The risks of falling into the Middle Income Trap have increasingly become a focus of discussions on ...
We examine the effect of the rise and evolution of the middle class on extreme poverty, using the Wo...
In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined ...
Middle-class welfare’ has been a catch-cry in Australian political debate in recent years, the sugge...
inviting me to participate in this hearing exploring innovative ideas and policies that can strength...
Recent studies of welfare state attitudes in the knowledge economy find very high generalized suppor...
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population belongs to the middle class....
Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the c...
What does it mean to be middle class? The majority of Americans define themselves as members of the ...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which corporate tax evasion and other vehicles o...
Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people l...
It is sometimes difficult to tell which group is more distressed about the purportedly deteriorating...
1The economics of distribution has long dominated economic policydebates. The issue of income distri...
A vast literature documents that wealth inequality has risen throughout advanced democracies, especi...
In this working paper I define inclusive growth as growth conducive to increasing the size and econo...
The risks of falling into the Middle Income Trap have increasingly become a focus of discussions on ...
We examine the effect of the rise and evolution of the middle class on extreme poverty, using the Wo...
In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined ...
Middle-class welfare’ has been a catch-cry in Australian political debate in recent years, the sugge...
inviting me to participate in this hearing exploring innovative ideas and policies that can strength...
Recent studies of welfare state attitudes in the knowledge economy find very high generalized suppor...
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population belongs to the middle class....
Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the c...
What does it mean to be middle class? The majority of Americans define themselves as members of the ...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which corporate tax evasion and other vehicles o...
Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people l...
It is sometimes difficult to tell which group is more distressed about the purportedly deteriorating...