Lessons from the Old Masters on Assessing Equity and Efficiency : A Primer for Fiscal Policymakers /

How can a society's well-being be measured to include not only average incomes but also their distribution? How can the effects of policies be assessed by considering both equity and efficiency? This primer outlines the seminal contributions of influential economists of the past, including Arth...

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Tác giả chính: Gaspar, Vitor
Tác giả khác: Mauro, Paolo, Poghosyan, Tigran
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/214
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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