Urban Poverty in Malaysia

UrBan PoVeRtY in MalaYsiA

Urban poverty is a

multidimensional

phenomenon. The urban

poor live with many

deprivations

Urban

Poverty is

the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or

money.

The Malaysian government

The Malaysian government defines urban

poverty as lack of monetary ability to procure basic needs, which are separated into food and non-food components, measured by non-food and food Poverty Line Income (PLI).

only 3.6% of the Malaysian population is living

below the overall urban poverty line.

Occurrence of the causal

factors of urban poverty

Low levels of education

Urban poverty can raise a lot of

ImPaCt ????

Lose the

opportunity to get an

lose the opportunity to obtain quality healthcare services.

Crime is tendency

 Ruin the

morals and

Manners

WeAkeN

the mind

how to tackle the problems of URBAN POVERTY IN MALAYSIA ???

More accessible information

Strategy to increase income

STRAT IE nG c Y o mT eO

IN cREASe

The government should

provide more job opportunities

conclusion

references

Daniel Suryadarma. The Effects of Location and Sectoral components of Economics growth on poverty. Journal of Development Economics. Volume 89,issue 1, May 2009. Pages 109 -117.

Christopher Murray, Kimber Malmgren. Implementing a teacher – student relationship program in a high – poverty urban school : Effect on Social. Emotional and Academic adjustment and lessons learned. Journal of school psychology. Volume 43, issue , March – April 2005. Pages 137 – 152.

journal

Aril Rupasingha, Stephan J. Goetz. social and Political forces as Determinants of Poverty. The journal of Socio – Economics, volume 36, issue 4, August 2007. pages 650 -671.

Website

Kementerian Kemajuan Luar Bandar dan Wilayah. http://www.kklw.bernama.com

Sara Shakilla Mohd Salim. Poverty Eradication In Malaysia : The needs for skilled community worker. http://www.ukm.my/penerbit/akademika

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