The Working Poor

By Teo Sue Ann, Ong Wooi Leng

June 2012 FEATURE
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“Poverty”, as defined by the World Bank, refers to the minimum level of earnings by a person per day. In 2009, the mean of the national poverty line, better known as the Poverty Line Index (PLI), was adjusted to RM6.50 per capita (Malaysia: The Millennium Development Goals [MDG] 2010). Malaysia was amongst the first developing countries to define its PLI in 1977 as “absolute poverty”. In order to determine the PLI in 1977, the reference of a household of five...

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Teo Sue Ann

Ong Wooi Leng

heads the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. Her work lies in labour market analysis and socio-economic development.


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