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How is poverty a form of social exclusion? Illustrate in this connection the different dimensions of poverty and social exclusion.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Stratification and Mobility

For a long time poverty was measured as a shortfall of income. Peter Townsend (Poverty in the United Kingdom, 1979) redefined it: people are poor when their resources fall so far below the average that they are, in effect, excluded from ordinary living patterns, customs and activities. On this reading, poverty is not just linked…

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