{"id":2223,"date":"2008-07-21T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/21\/poverty-line-index-to-be-calculated-annually\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T07:16:27","slug":"poverty-line-index-to-be-calculated-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/21\/poverty-line-index-to-be-calculated-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty line index to be calculated annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government had <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/21\/nation\/20080721132149&amp;sec=nation\">decided<\/a> that the poverty line index (PLI) will be updated annually<br \/>\ninstead of every five years. This is due to changes in the spending<br \/>\nhabits of consumers affected by the rise in consumer goods prices and<br \/>\ninflation. This news was announced by Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department Tan Sri<br \/>\nAmirsham Abd Aziz in Dewan Negara. The Consumer Price Index will also be recalculated.<\/p>\n<p>Good news indeed as this information can be used to provide suitable assistance to the poor and the middle class. Currently, poverty line is set at RM 691 and hardcore poverty is set at half of that amount (following international standards). Some states had recently revised the poverty rate, like Selangor which set it to RM1500. Poverty line can different among states, and area (urban\/rural).<\/p>\n<p>I estimate a ball park figure of at least RM1200 to be the poverty line in urban area, with Klang Valley, Penang, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu and Johor Bahru poverty line set at RM1500. Rural areas may be around RM800 &#8211; RM1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government had decided that the poverty line index (PLI) will be updated annually instead of every five years. This is due to changes in the spending habits of consumers affected by the rise in consumer goods prices and inflation. This news was announced by Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department Tan Sri Amirsham Abd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115,154],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-economy","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}