poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …

that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …

of law, transparency as measured by the corruption perceptions index from Transparency International, trust as measured …

Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …