Ex-UN special rapporteur lauds Putrajaya for raising poverty line

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Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston has praised Putrajaya for following through with a commitment to raise the poverty line in order to give a more accurate picture of the state of poverty in the country. He said this in reference to the government's announcement yesterday that the absolute poverty line has been revised from RM980 to RM2,208. "Malaysia's government has taken a courageous step towards bringing its poverty line closer to reality. "The line announced today is more than double the previous one and results in an official poverty rate 14 times higher than previously acknowledged," he said in a statement. According to the old poverty line of RM980, which was set in 2005, the absolute poverty line was at 0.4 percent in 2016 and would have been 0.2 percent in 2019. However, the update means absolu…