Birdsall, N.; Graham, C.; Pettinato, S. - Brookings Institution - 2000
Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We … suggest some simple measures of the middle-the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)-and their … income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our results point to genuine distributional stress for middle-income …