Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure. “When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg said in a post […]

IMF Survey March 13, 2014 Inequality growing across many regions in the world Fiscal policies can help countries reduce inequality Redistributive policies should be designed with efficiency in mind To support sustainable economic growth, redistribution should be done with fiscal instruments that achieve distributional objectives at a minimum cost to […]

by David Lipton First Deputy Managing Director, IMF At The Peterson Institute for International Economics Washington, D.C., March 13, 2014 As prepared for delivery Thank you for providing me the opportunity to present the key findings of a new IMF study on fiscal policy and income inequality. Income inequality has […]