1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910709688603321

Titolo

Stabilization : hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Sixty-Ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 7895 a bill to amend papragraph (d) of section 14 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, to provide for the stabilization of the price level for commodities in general

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office, , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1145 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Currency question - United States

Price maintenance - United States

Currency question

Price maintenance

Legislative hearings.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. March 24-25, 30-31, April 1, 6, 8-9, 12-14, 1926 -- pt. 2. April 20-22, 27, 30, May 3-6, June 10, 1926, and February 4, 1927.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779968903321

Autore

Fields Gary S

Titolo

Distribution and Development : a New Look at the Developing World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : MIT Press, 2015

ISBN

0-262-27260-1

0-585-38578-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

339.22091724

Soggetti

Income distribution - Developing countries

Poverty - Developing countries

Developing countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In this book Gary Fields asks to what extent and in what circumstances economic growth improves the material standard of living of a country's people. Most development economists agree that economic growth raises the incomes of people in all parts of the income distribution and lowers the poverty rate. At the same time, some groups lose out because of changes accompanying economic growth. Fields examines these beliefs, asking what variables should be measured to determine whether progress is being made and what policies and circumstances cause some countries to do better than others. He also shows how the same data can be interpreted to reach different, even conflicting, conclusions. Using both theoretical and empirical approaches, Fields defines and examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well-being. Finally, he considers various policies for broad-based growth. Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation.