“Poverty can be defined objectively and applied consistently only in terms of the concept of relative deprivation.”

— Peter Townsend (sociologist)

[Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living, 1979, University of California Press, 978-0-520-03976-6, 31, https://books.google.com/books?id=weGYy_-czvsC&pg=PA31]

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