Incidence of poverty a hard problem to tackle


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 25 Apr 2004

STUDENTS learning the economic geography of Malaysia should be very familiar with the phrase “eradication of poverty”. 

That was one of the three objectives of the New Economic Policy (NEP), which had been drafted in 1970 and continued to be the standard policy for economic development until 1990. The New Development Policy (NDP) replaced the NEP in 1991.  

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