Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics

Table of Contents<BR>List of Figures<BR>List of Tables<BR>Foreword<BR>Notes on Contributors<BR>Introduction<BR>Part I: Inequality, Poverty, and Security<BR>1.&nbsp;The UTIP Global Inequality Data Sets 1963-2008. Updates, Revisions and Quality Checks; James K. Galbraith, Beatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams and Wenjie Zhang<BR>2.&nbsp;Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: The Mexican Wave; Gonzalo Hernández Licona<BR>3.&nbsp;Inequality, Economic Growth and Natural Ressources Rent: Evidence From The Middle East and North Africa; Hamid E. Ali and Sara M. Sami<BR>4.&nbsp;Inequality Impacts of Oil Dependence in the Mena; Sevil Acar&nbsp;<BR>5. Housing and Saving in Retirement Across Countries; Makoto Nakajima and Irina A. Telyukova<BR>Part II: Income Contingent and Student Loans<BR>6.&nbsp;Income Contingent Loans; Joseph E. Stiglitz<BR>7.&nbsp;Income Contingent Loans as a General Risk Management Instrument; Bruce Chapman<BR>8.&nbsp;Utilising the Transactional Efficiencies of Contingent Loans – A General Framework for Policy Application; Richard Denniss<BR>9.&nbsp;Income Contingent Loans for Social Policy: the Case of Paid Parental Leave; Timothy Higgins<BR>10.&nbsp;Illustrating Trade-Off Between Interest Rates and Aggregate Loan Recovery of the Student Loans Fund in Thailand; Kiatanantha Lounkaew<BR>11.&nbsp;The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans; Mathias G. Sinning<BR>Index<BR><BR>