PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s national poverty line income (PLI) has been raised to more than twice its previous level after the government adopted a new calculation methodology.
The PLI has been revised to a monthly household income of RM2,208, up from RM980 before and the national poverty rate in 2019 is at 5.6%, up from 0.4% calculated in 2016 using the older methodology.
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