The government must use globally-accepted poverty measures instead of relying on absolute poverty measures that do not reflect on-the-ground realities, PKR’s Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah said: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/282290
Counting households who have incomes under the poverty line of RM830 per month will not show that one in five Malaysian households are relatively poor, the PKR vice president said.
This is based on the Malaysia Human Development Reported commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which shows Malaysia’s relative poverty has been rising since 2007.
"The figures released by the report clearly show just how meaningless and futile the measure of absolute poverty is," she said in a statement.
Absolute poverty measures the number of households who earn under the poverty line, while relative poverty measures the disparity of income in a country.
