Confronting Inequality : : How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth / / Prakash Loungani, Andrew Berg, Jonathan D. Ostry.

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Mo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 51 graphs and charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. INEQUALITY: MEASURES AND DRIVERS
  • 3. INEQUALITY AND SUSTAINED GROWTH
  • 4. STRUCTURAL POLICIES AND INEQUALITY
  • 5. FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY
  • 6. AUSTERITY AND INEQUALITY
  • 7. CENTRAL BANKS AND INEQUALITY
  • 8. TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND INEQUALITY
  • 9. REMEDIES FOR INEQUALITY-REDISTRIBUTION
  • 10. CONCLUSIONS
  • DATA APPENDIX
  • TECHNICAL APPENDIX
  • GLOSSARY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX