A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under...

Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...

The Olivia framework is a set of concepts and measures that, when mature, will allow users to describe, in a consistent and integrated manner, everything about individuals and institutions that is of potential interest to social policy. The present paper summarizes the current stage of...

Although they are presently home to less than one-fifth of the total refugee population living in Jordan, namely 350,000 refugees), the refugee camps epitomize the dilemma pertaining to the refugees' dual Palestinian/Jordanian identity. Generally viewed as the most vivid markers of the refugees'...

Although the term globalization still awaits a globally agreed definition, it is commonly used in different walks of life like academia, politics, media and policy makers etc. It may be termed ‘all for good and good for all', or exactly opposite ‘all for sin and sin for all', reality reckons...

A huge 5 years foreign funded project implemented covering the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aiming at provision of rural water supply and sanitation ended in 2009. The Project was designed to improve not only the existing water and sanitation services but also hygiene behavioral patterns amongst...

Searching for the "State of the Art" for Food Pantries is a literature review I began in August of 2011, and finished analyzing in early April 2012. It looks at the results of a search through several databases of journals, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals from 1931 through July...

This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...

We propose a measure of life satisfaction, alternative to the standard synthetic cognitive wellbeing question, based on the specifi c contribution of eleven life satisfaction sub-components (including satisfaction about the past, life opportunities, hope for the future, vitality, control over...

This paper analyses J.S. Mill's theory on the relationships between individual autonomy and State powers. It will be argued that there is a significant discrepancy between Mill's general liberal statements aimed to secure individual largest possible autonomy and the specific examples which...