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Friday, 14 November 2008 10:29 |
By Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj
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ON 11 Nov 2008, the Prime Minister's Department answered a question about income distribution that I had submitted before the start of the current parliamentary session.
The reply was read by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department SK Devamany, who gave the following figures based on a 2007 Statistics Department survey of households:

The figures, if accurate, reveal several realities about our society. The first is that 38% of Malaysian families have a monthly household income of less than RM2,000. I believe that RM2,000 should be used as the poverty line and not the current unrealistic standard of RM720 per month for a family with three children. Only 5% of Malaysian families have a monthly household income of less than RM720. Read the rest here
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