In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of the...

We consider a situation where the relatively ‘poor’ are concerned about their relative income status with respect to a relevant reference group. Such a concern is explicitly introduced in a utility function to study the consumption and saving behavior of the poor in terms of a...

Economic activity sometimes brings advanced technology to an enclave in a less-developed region where low-wage labor can be combined with skilled labor and capital from the advanced region to produce commodities for export to world markets. Potential skills of local workers may not be known to...