The poverty, in welfare economics, is understood as a situation of privation of goods. In one hand, poverty can be … the definition of poverty lines that indicate the minimum level of income so that the individuals can satisfy its basic … substantially between different societies. Thus, more recently a multidimensional boarding was developed to deal with the poverty …

Although many studies were done in Brazil about poverty, very few of then did analyze the transient or persistent … nature of this phenomenon. Encouraged by the lack of poverty analyses as a dynamic phenomenon in Brazil, the objective of … chosen as the welfare indicator the per capita family income, which was analyzed in relation to a relative poverty line …