Peter Townsend (professor)

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Peter (Brereton) Townsend, (b. 6th April 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 (since 1980) is the Labour peer (and former Bristol East MP), Jean Corston. He is considered by some to have had a a key influence in the present Labour administration's interest in alleviating poverty.

Contents 1 Key works 2 Definition of relative poverty 3 Papers and Work 4 see also

[edit] Key works

Townsend, Peter. 1979. 'Poverty in the United Kingdom' Allen Lane: London

[edit] Definition of relative poverty

"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." (Townsend, 1979, page 31)

define la probeza como" los individuos, familias y grupos que en una poblaciOn determinada carecen de los recursos para obtener el tipo de dieta, participar en las actividades y tener las condiciones de vida que son habituales o ampliamente aceptadas por la sociedad a la que pertenece/

[edit] Papers and Work

A partial list is to be found at [1] www.archiveshub.ac.uk

[edit] see also

Tom Clark, Making Poverty History, Interview in Guardian Society, 2nd April 2008