TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paweenawat,Archawa
AU  - Townsend,Robert M.
TI  - Inequality and Globalization: Improving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts 
SN  - 9780691258041
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General
KW  - village economy
KW  - regional economy
KW  - trade policy
KW  - trade liberalization
KW  - financial liberalization
KW  - household accounts
KW  - national accounts
KW  - economic transition
KW  - inequality
KW  - Inequality and Globalization: Improving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts
KW  - Robert M. Townsend and Archawa Paweenawat
KW  - Buriram
KW  - Chachoengsao
KW  - DCPC
KW  - Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
KW  - economic model for Thai
KW  - household financial statements
KW  - Integrated Macro Accounts
KW  - IMAs
KW  - Lopburi
KW  - SCF
KW  - Survey of Consumer Finances
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Thai national economy
KW  - Townsend Thai data
KW  - U.S. household surveys
KW  - national income
N1  - Frontmatter --; contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Townsend Thai Surveys and Financial Accounts --; 3 Constructing Community-Level Economic Accounts --; 4 A Model Economy for the Thai Data --; 5 Taking Integrated Financial Accounts to the U.S. --; 6 U.S. Integrated Macro Accounts --; 7 Construction of Disaggregated Integrated Accounts for the U.S. --; Appendix --; References --; Index --; The Gorman Lectur es in Economics;  / Richard Blundell  --; Biography --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access
N2  - A remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each otherIncreasing inequality, the impact of globalization, and the disparate effects of financial regulation and innovation are extraordinarily important topics that fuel spirited policy debates. And yet the facts underlying these debates are of doubtful accuracy. In reality, as Archawa Paweenawat and Robert Townsend show in Inequality and Globalization, there is a large gap between micro household surveys, which measure key outcomes such as inequality, and aggregated financial accounts, which measure macroeconomic totals and growth. Paweenawat and Townsend propose a remedy: integrated financial accounts, in which the flows in income statements, including saving and investment, are consistent with the changes in financial assets and liabilities in the balance sheet at micro and macro levels. None of the leading US micro household surveys or macro accounts meets this criterion.Drawing on extensive data from fieldwork in Thailand, Paweenawat and Townsend show how consistent integrated financial accounts at the individual household and small enterprise level can be created using household and firm survey data. Aggregated to the village level, these accounts can link anecdotal stories of individual households to their financial accounts, document the real impact on them from growth, and assess what would have happened to them if trade and financial liberalization had not been allowed. Paweenawat and Townsend then describe the next logical step: creating integrated financial accounts for the United States, working from the ground up and the top down. Only with these integrated accounts will policy debates on inequality and globalization have a solid factual basis
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