The future of global income inequality

Stuck in the Middle: Is Fiscal Policy Failing the Middle Class?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 54-74

  Bussolo, Maurizio ^a   De Hoyos, Rafael E ^a,b   Medvedev, Denis ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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