The three chapters of this article propose a critical review around Adela Cortina's concept of aporophobia . The first one proposes a contrast among the quantitative methods to measure poverty and the qualitative methods which have variables that are not taken into account by the former. For this, we review the postulates of Jeffrey Sach's clinical economics, Deepa Narayan's multifaceted poverty approach and Amartia Sen's capabilities approach. Thus, we examine the relationship between poverty and economic inequality exploring theses from Stiglitz and Cortina. The second chapter analyzes the concept of indifference, which is defined as an attitude related to aporophobia and explained in the light of postulates of psychology, sociology, and neurobiology. Alternately, we explore its counterpart, which is solidarity and/or altruism, by developing ideas from neuroscience, sociology and the cordial ethics proposed by Cortina. The final chapter raises some reflections within the framework of the pandemic and the post-pandemic in an attenpt to find new relationships that can be deepened in further research, such as the relationship between poverty, capitalism and the environment. Proposing in this way possible alternatives to development from community socialism and Sumak Kawsay
