PETALING JAYA: Poverty rates in the country have worsened due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and improvements in absolute poverty reductions in 2019 have reversed, says the Khazanah Research Institute.
Its Households and the Pandemic 2019-2022: The State of Households 2024 (SoH 2024) report released Thursday (Sept 26) said that in 2022, the number of households in Malaysia in absolute poverty rose to 6.2%.
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