If poverty cannot be measured accurately, it cannot easily be eradicated. Peter Townsend invented the relative deprivation theory of poverty which placed the definition and measurement of poverty on ...

The Centre was established in response to the United Nations First International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997—2006) and in recognition of the work of Professor Peter Townsend. The ...

[Peter] co-founded the Child Poverty Action Group and the Disability Alliance. Peter Townsend was an academic sociologist, researcher and prominent social policy campaigner. He wrote extensively on ...