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Dr M: Review of poverty line already started
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government had already started reviewing the poverty line from March to give a better picture of the poverty situation in the country. He told the Dewan Rakyat sitting today that
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Measure poverty with Multidimensional Poverty Index, says Suhakam
PUCHONG: The National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) urged the federal government to measure poverty using the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) in the wake of claims by United Nations’ Extreme Poverty and Human Rights special rapporteur Philip Alston that Malaysia’s poverty
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Yardstick to rid Malaysia of poverty
KUALA LUMPUR: The United Nations (UN) report on the rate of poverty in Malaysia, although being questioned, can still be used as a yardstick to help the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in formulating new programmes to bring the
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