ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The book surveyed and analysed the development and structure of economic poverty or low incomes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The author's approach has been to work on data sets for the individual countries which have been made as comparable as possible. For each country the authors have used the same equivalence scale to adjust for differences in household size, and the same poverty line, i.e. 50 per cent of the median in the distribution of household-size-adjusted disposable incomes. Immigrants are included in the Swedish data and the analysis shows a clearly higher poverty risk among non-Nordic immigrants. It is a very demanding matter to try to compare poverty dynamics across countries, and the authors have not entered into it.
