Peter Townsend (professor)
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Peter (Brereton) Townsend, (b. 1928) is presently Professor of International Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is also Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the University of Bristol. He has written widely of the economics of poverty and was an early member of the Child Poverty Action Group. His partner is the Labour peer (and former Bristol East MP), Jean Corston.
1979. Poverty in the UK
A definition of social exclusion.
Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the type of diet, participation in the activities and the have the living conditions and the amenities which are customary, or at least widely encouraged or approved in the societies to which they belong. Their resources are so seriously below those commanded by the average family that they are in effect excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities.
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