Many different indicators are used to monitor poverty and poverty-related deprivations. Two
kinds of legitimacy worries may arise about any such indicator: one regarding its reliability …

Alicia Ely Yamin* hen it is not accompanied by a/ igh of resignation at the end of a
discussion about the decline of the work ethic, poverty is increasingly treated by politicians …

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of
poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and …

The Human Development Report 2000 of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) noted:'People are turning more and more to the law–including international human …

This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete
history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and …

We are currently over half-way through the First United Nations (UN) Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty. The growing gap between rich and poor states and between income …

There is a growing body of work illustrating that we can motivate individuals to donate more
to charities by nudging them through various behavioral techniques. Yet, there is very little …

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to
get rid of it... In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and …

The often quoted statement that" poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human
rights", 3 expresses the moral intuition that, in a world rich in resources and the …

This chapter shows whether and under what conditions severe poverty violates human
rights in the moral sense. Human agents may participate in imposing social institutions only …