Tok Pa: Accurate figures vital


People-centric development: PPR is a government programme to resettle squatters and provide housing requirements for low-income earners.

PETALING JAYA: An accurate reflection of the country’s socio-economic demographics is vital to the national effort in eradicating poverty, a task made tougher in the Covid-19 economic landscape.

The government took heed of this and increased the national poverty line last year, the first review in 15 years.

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