Andrew Dunn

Townsend’s poverty ‘threshold’ revisited: an analysis that utilises his critics’ insights and all 60 of his deprivation indicators

Abstract Peter Townsend’s influential 1968/69 poverty study is still lauded. Yet controversy surrounded his claim that it established a meaningful poverty ‘threshold’ at an income level equivalent to 140 per cent of means-tested state benefit rates, below which deprivation increa...