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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jonathan Portes*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Centre for Macroeconomics. I am grateful to Raquel Fernandez for very helpful comments and to various authors at the Institute for Fiscal Studies for permission to reproduce two of the charts

Abstract

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Type
Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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