In the last decades, there has been a deceleration in the rates of poverty reduction,
suggesting that traditional redistributive approaches to poverty mitigation could be losing
effectiveness, and alternative insights to advance the number one UN Sustainable
Development Goal are required. The criminalization of poor people has been denounced by
several NGOs, and an increasing number of voices suggest that discrimination against the
poor (a phenomenon known as\emph {aporophobia}) could be an impediment to mitigating …