{"id":36080,"date":"2018-10-19T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=36080"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:29:12","slug":"deputy-minister-malaysia-poverty-line-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/deputy-minister-malaysia-poverty-line-low","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Says Malaysia&#8217;s Poverty Line Is Too Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy\u00a0Minister of International Trade and Investment Dr Ong Kian Ming believes that the poverty line in Malaysia is set too low, and that a higher standard would better measure poverty rates.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ong said,\u00a0&#8220;as wages climbed and we became a middle-income nation, we didn\u2019t increase the standard for what is considered decent living above the poverty line.\u00a0So now it\u2019s a very low bar that we have.\u00a0We need to increase the poverty line index to reach the level of a living wage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said that there are many households that are at risk of falling below the poverty line. Especially if the main breadwinner of the family becomes unable to work, or if a child develops a debilitating illness.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, one in three urban poor in KL have no access to social safety nets like SOCSO, EPF, or insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy minister&#8217;s comments come after\u00a0release of the World Bank&#8217;s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report. Which showed that 80% of people in the South Asia region still lived on less than $5.50 a day in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2018\/10\/19\/malaysias-poverty-line-too-low-says-kian-ming\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are looking up, but don&#8217;t properly reflect the economic state of Malaysians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":36084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysia Poverty Line Too Low To Properly Measure Income<\/title>\n<meta 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