Poverty Measured More Accurately Now

Hawati Abdul Hamid, Senior Research Associate, Khazanah Research Institute

14-Jul-20 07:47

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Malaysia has raised the poverty line income (PLI) from RM980 to RM2,208, meaning the number of households considered poor has increased from about 25,000 to 400,000. Hawati Abdul Hamid, Senior Research Associate, Khazanah Research Institute makes sense of these numbers and what it means for policymakers.

Image Credit: Manan Vatsyayana / AFP

Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Roshan Kanesan, Lyn Mak, Noelle Lim

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Categories: Politics, Law and Legal Matters, Social Issues, Investments

Tags: poverty line, PIL, Malaysia,

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