This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty … adjustment to social expectations. Each of the states can be fully described by a separate technology of utility production. The …

observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of goods that generate positive utility for the self …

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 arguments of obligation, a theory of global justice should primarily formulate …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …