The purpose of this paper is twofold, partly exploratory; to determine the degree to which Rowntree's poverty cycles … sociopolitical strategies have been in eliminating poverty over the life-cycle. The paper seeks to make a contribution in relation to …

systems. As rational decision-makers we would plan a society where the incidence of poverty is low, differences in the level … poverty to non-poverty is high, and where the living standard of the poor is decent. The results show that income mobility is … poverty rates are not associated with more rapid income mobility and higher standards for the poor. …

In the first section of the study, we analyze the cross-sectional relationship between poverty rates and the income … level of the poor. Thereafter, we take a close look at changes in time: how poverty and 'richness' rates and changes in the …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight … against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relation between relative … poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious relation to the debated topic …