Multidimensional poverty in the time of Covid-19

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MP SPEAKS | A poverty line that is inaccurately drawn fails to fully capture Malaysia’s most deprived communities – the poorest, the stateless, the differently-abled, and other vulnerable segments.  For a country that has touted its great strides in poverty eradication, the common sight of deprivation call into question the nation’s measurement of poverty.  The national poverty rate, measured based on the poverty line income (PLI), plunged from 49 percent in 1970 to a mere 0.4 percent in 2016, if we presume the 11th Malaysia Plan 2016 – 2020 to be true and fair. To its credit, the same Malaysia Plan also introduced the multidimensional poverty index (MPI); it's objective none other than to complement the PLI.  Designed in part by the United Nations (UN), this is an indicator that looks beyond income, underscoring ten other indicators centered on health, education and standards…