Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics

1. Introduction
Martin Guzman, Joseph E. Stiglitz

Part I. Inequality, Poverty, and Security

2. The University of Texas Inequality Project Global Inequality Data Sets, 1963–2008: Updates, Revisions and Quality Checks
James K. Galbraith, Béatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams, Wenjie Zhang

3. Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: The Mexican Wave
Gonzalo Hernández Licona

4. Inequality, Economic Growth and Natural Resources Rent: Evidence From the Middle East and North Africa
Hamid E. Ali, Sara M. Sami

5. Inequality Impacts of Oil Dependence in the MENA
Sevil Acar

6. Housing and Saving in Retirement Across Countries
Makoto Nakajima, Irina A. Telyukova

Part II. Income Contingent and Student Loans

7. Income-Contingent Loans: Some General Theoretical Considerations, with Applications
Joseph E. Stiglitz

8. Income Contingent Loans as a General Risk Management Instrument
Bruce Chapman

9. Utilizing the Transactional Efficiencies of Contingent Loans — A General Framework for Policy Application
Richard Denniss, Tom Swann

10. Income Contingent Loans for Social Policy: the Case of Paid Parental Leave
Timothy Higgins

11. Illustrating the Trade-Off Between Interest Rates and Aggregate Loan Recovery of the Student Loans Fund in Thailand
Kiatanantha Lounkaew

12. The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans
Mathias G. Sinning

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Microeconomics, International Economics