Measure of poverty a conundrum not only for Malaysia


People collecting their BR1M vouchers in Penang.

It’s a challenge for many governments to reconcile the disconnect people feel between statistics and sentiment

THE recent release of the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) Annual Report 2014 received its share of brickbats.

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