-- Poverty and justice : John Rawls and Robert Nozick … Locke -- The noble poor : Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith -- Empirical influences and the complexities of poverty … : Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill -- Poverty as a challenge to capitalist economies : G.W. Hegel and Karl Marx …

There is growing support for the idea that global income poverty should be assessed with a measure accounting for both … paper studies the implications of requiring that the poverty measure makes a fair and welfare-consistent aggregation of … rule out the use of classical poverty indexes. In particular, the paper finds that the ubiquitoushead-count ratio violates …

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 …