ABSTRACT
The complete picture is also obscured because there are so many dimensions of deprivation. As Donnison (1975:31) argues, the poor cannot be defined by income alone: equally important is their command over resources in kind such as education, the way they are treated by those on whom they depend, such as landlords or bureaucrats, their power over their environment and their life, and, of course, the security of these conditions. Although a wider view of deprivation may deprive us of easy indicators, it does illustrate the complexity of the processes that produce it.
