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18 Oct 2020

Who Are Malaysia’s New Poor? The COVID-19 Recession.

With the recession and rising unemployement caused by COVID-19, there are 5 to 8% more Malaysians below the new poverty line- an income of RM2208. This means that as many as 2.4 million more individuals could be ‘the new poor’.