Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: TRENDS IN INCOME INEQUALITY AND THE REDISTRIBUTIVE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY -- 1 Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality: An Overview -- 2 The IMF and Income Distribution -- 3 Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Advanced Economies -- 4 Fiscal Redistribution in Developing Countries: Overview of Policy Issues and Options -- 5 Poverty and Distribution: Thirty Years Ago and Now -- PART II: ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF INEQUALITY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FISCAL POLICY -- 6 Functional Income Distribution and Its Role in Explaining Inequality -- 7 The Wealth of Nations: Stylized Facts and Options for Taxation -- PART III: FISCAL CONSOLIDATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY -- 8 Fiscal Consolidation and Inequality in Advanced Economies: How Robust Is the Link? -- 9 Fiscal Consolidation and Income Inequality -- PART IV: TAX POLICY AND INEQUALITY -- 10 International Corporate Tax Spillovers and Redistributive Policies in Developing Countries -- 11 Taxing Immovable Property: Revenue Potential and Implementation Challenges -- 12 Targeting and Indirect Tax Design -- 13 Carbon Tax Burdens on Low-Income Households: A Reason for Delaying Climate Policy? -- PART V: EXPENDITURE POLICY AND INEQUALITY -- 14 The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited: Evidence for Developing Countries -- 15 Equity Considerations in the Design of Public Pension Systems -- 16 The Redistributive Impact of Government Spending on Education and Health: Evidence from Thirteen Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project -- 17 Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization, and Transfer Dependency -- PART VI COUNTRY CASE STUDIES -- 18 Reinventing the Dutch Tax-Benefit System: Exploring the Frontier of the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off -- 19 Growing (Un)equal: Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality in China and BRIC+. 20 The Quest for the Holy Grail: Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in India -- 21 A Path to Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in the Republic of Congo -- 22 Fiscal Adjustment and Income Inequality in Brazilian States -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.