Relative poverty

Definition:

• Being in poverty comapred to other people
• Measured in terms of judgements by members of a particular society

Townsend (1965):

•  Claim that anyone with an income below 140% of a household's entiltlement to National assistance, was living in poverty
• Based on the belief that even those above the NA level were still in poverty
• 1979 - concluded that poverty created exclusion from…