Poverty, Malaysia’s Hidden Crisis
An issue to top the political agenda
By: Murray Hunter
Successive Malaysian administrations have hidden the real incidence of poverty in the country for decades. The government narrative asserts that it has reduced poverty from 50 percent in 1970 to almost eliminating it – to just 0.4 percent in 2016. International organizations including the likes of the United Nations Development Program …
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