Poverty In Malaysia Article

Using this more representative measure for the poverty line and.

Poverty in malaysia article. Malaysia s poverty lines should be at least double that with absolute poverty lines closer to rm2 000 per household per month. If this were our measure the poverty rate in malaysia would jump to 16 per cent in 2016 slightly higher than in 2014 15 6 per cent despite the country s economic growth over the same period he said. They use relative poverty forecasts where if households have less than 50 per cent of the median income they are considered poor.