This review of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer discusses their research and findings regarding the poorest of the poor in post-welfare reform America. This thoroughly researched work presents a stark picture of modern poverty - today, more...

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...

Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We argue that, instead of relying exclusively on...

This essay will deal with the biggest problem I consider we face in modern times. The existence of extreme poverty in current times is a paradox when we consider the levels of prosperity we have reached as a society. I will explore why I consider its persistence the result of an inadequate moral...

Persisting social exclusion is one of the key issues the European Union Member States have to handle according to the headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. In the Czech Republic, more than 1 million people - 12.5% of the whole population - lived in the year 2019 at risk of poverty or...

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The condition of zakah in Indonesia has become increasingly arising which is marked by changes of paradigm on zakah management. Formerly it was based on individual-traditional approach, but then it moved more on collective-professional approach. This is indicated by the emerging of many...