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Old Age Poverty is a serious societal issue that needs to be given urgent priority in national policy planning and resource mobilization.
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Friday, 14 April 2023
... lower-income households is relevant and timely.
There is an ongoing need to better understand and properly measure poverty and inequality. This is so that responses and policies can be rolled ...
Saturday, 11 February 2023
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https://www.bernama.com/en/b_focus/v2/news.php?id=2151631
Orang Asli: Poverty Forcing Children Out Of School [29 December 2022]
https://www.bernama.com/en/b_focus/v2/news.php?id=2151887 ...
Saturday, 31 December 2022
... that many parents here are aware that only education can pull their community out of the clutches of poverty . In fact, some of them regretted stopping their children’s schooling as it prevented them from ...
Tuesday, 27 December 2022
... There are urban poverty programmes, food baskets and various ministries have their own programmes to help the poor, which have been rolled out fast. We also see many NGOs and religious institutions organising ...
Friday, 19 August 2022
... three economic features for parliamentary constituencies – inequality, poverty , and unemployment rate.
Malaysian inequality has been declining since 1980s but started to widen from 2016 to 2019. GINI ...
Thursday, 05 May 2022
The history of the end of poverty has just begun..
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022
... reduce poverty and vulnerability in society. The Government needs to consider medicines as a basic need, and not another commodity in the market.
We urge the Government to keep their promise, as ...
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
... part of the richest 15% of the world ($30 a day roughly corresponds to the poverty lines set in high-income countries).
To read the full article please go to link https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality-introduction ...
Friday, 10 December 2021
... to formal sector workers.
Amid fiscal constraints, social assistance strived to aid only the “deserving” poor, but the poverty line that determines eligibility for assistance could be defined minimally ...
Friday, 24 September 2021
... disparity between the Malays and non-Malays, the government promulgated an affirmative action plan, the New Economy Policy or NEP in 1971. Its twin-pronged objectives are to eradicate poverty regardless ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
... relied on RMT annually to acquire sufficient nutrients. The RMT had helped to alleviate some of the malnutrition effects brought about by poverty . As more people fall below the poverty line due to both ...
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
... who for generations have faced
obstacles in obtaining citizenship, in part due to excessive bureaucracy.
The issue is complicated by their nomadic culture and compounded by
rural poverty ,limited ...
Sunday, 18 July 2021
... that poverty breeds ill-health, while ill-health perpetuates poverty . Ill health diminishes incomes and increases healthcare costs. Low incomes contribute to ill health via a multiplicity of deprivations ...
Saturday, 01 May 2021
WEBINAR :
ASEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS &
IMPLICATIONS ON POVERTY ERADICATION IN MALAYSIA
Date: 8 April 2021 [Thursday]
Time; 8.30 - 10.00 PM
Link: https://www.facebook.com/partisosialis ...
Monday, 05 April 2021
... stated that the twin aims of the NEP were the restructuring of Malaysian society to a) correct the economic imbalance between the races and b) the eradication of poverty . The method by which the government ...
Thursday, 01 April 2021
Why Wigan Council has made it their own responsibility to consider poverty
As
charities, Just Fair and The Equality Trust continue to campaign for the socio-economic duty to be included ...
Friday, 26 February 2021
... growth and the shrinking relative size of the working-age population will account for a third of the decline in headline GDP growth by 2050
Poverty incidence and vulnerability of older persons increases ...
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
... into poverty .
The first report analysed the immediate socio-economic impact of the COVID-19, with a focus on the relevance, adequacy and accessibility of key COVID-19 mitigation policies and other ...
Friday, 30 October 2020
... to quality education.”
IDEAS CEO Tricia Yeoh commented, “Orang Asli children continue to face tremendous barriers in accessing the quality education they require to escape the poverty cycle. The ...
Monday, 26 October 2020