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