{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A norm optimisation approach to SDGs: tackling poverty by acting on discrimination","authors":[{"name":"Georgina Curto","slug":"georgina-curto","given":"Georgina","family":"Curto","affiliation":"University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame , USA; IQS School of Management , Ramon Llull University , Barcelona , Spain; EINA , Autonomous University of Barcelona , Spain"},{"name":"Nieves Montes","slug":"nieves-montes","given":"Nieves","family":"Montes","affiliation":"Artificial Intelligence Research Institute , IIIA-CSIC , Barcelona , Spain"},{"name":"Carles Sierra","slug":"carles-sierra","given":"Carles","family":"Sierra","affiliation":"IQS School of Management , Ramon Llull University , Barcelona , Spain; Land Economy and VHI , University of Cambridge , England"},{"name":"Nardine Osman","slug":"nardine-osman","given":"Nardine","family":"Osman","affiliation":"Artificial Intelligence Research Institute , IIIA-CSIC , Barcelona , Spain"},{"name":"Flavio Comim","slug":"flavio-comim","given":"Flavio","family":"Comim","affiliation":"Artificial Intelligence Research Institute , IIIA-CSIC , Barcelona , Spain"}],"abstract":"Policies that seek to mitigate poverty by acting on equal opportunity have been found to aggravate discrimination against the poor (aporophobia), since individuals are made responsible for not progressing in the social hierarchy. Only a minority of the poor benefit from meritocracy in this era of growing inequality,  generating resentment among those who seek to escape their needy situations by trying to climb up  the  ladder.   Through  the  formulation  and  development of an agent-based social simulation, this study aims to analyse the role of norms implementing equal opportunity and social solidarity principles as enhancers or mitigators of aporophobia, as well as the threshold of aporophobia that would facilitate  the  success  of  poverty-reduction  policies. The ultimate goal of the social simulation is to extract  insights  that  could  help  inform  and  guide  a new  generation  of  policy  making  for  poverty  reduction  by  acting on the discrimination against the poor,  in  line  with the  UN  “Leave  No  One  Behind”  principle.    An “aporophobia-meter” will be developed and guidelines will be drafted based on both the simulation results and a review of poverty reduction policies at regional levels.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2022/726","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/726","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/0726.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/726.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/bibtex/726","volume":{"slug":"2022","title":"Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2022","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/","year":2022,"location":"Vienna","dates":"23-29 July 2022","editors":"Luc De Raedt","isbn":"978-1-956792-00-3","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2022"},"section":"Projects","track":"AI for Good - Projects","number":726,"pages":{"first":5228,"last":5235},"keywords":["AI for Good Project Proposal: AI for Good Project Proposal"],"videos":[{"label":"Video #1","url":"https://slideslive.com/38987157","length_sec":90,"provider":"slideslive"},{"label":"Video #2","url":"https://slideslive.com/38985300","length_sec":921,"provider":"slideslive"}],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Alesina et al., 2018] Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Edoardo Teso. 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