"Poverty can be defined objectively and applied consistently only in terms of the concept of relative deprivation."
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Peter Townsend (sociologist)
(6 April 1928, – 8 June 2009, ) was a British sociologist. The last position he held was Professor of International Social Policy at the . He was also of Social Policy in the , and was one of the co-founders of the . He wrote widely on the economics of poverty and was co-founder of the .
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