Official statistics report rapidly declining household income inequality in Malaysia during the 2000s. However, this phenomenon has passed unnoticed and unexplained, while public discourse widely asserts that inequality has either risen or remained high. In particular, salaries and wealth are perceived to...
“We stand by our absolute poverty rate which stands at 0.4 percent of total households…,” he told local media, adding that the country’s poverty rate is derived from internationally accepted standards based on the Canberra Group Handbook on Household Income Statistics, Second Edition (2011), ...
micro-credit;training;household income;economic vulnerability;Malaysia 1. Introduction Poverty has become a multidimensional problem in developing and underdeveloped countries. According to theWorld Bank(2018), 2.4 billion people live in an extremely poor condition spending less than US$1.90 each day. Spe...
Furthermore, 68.3 % of the respondents reported a monthly household income of RM5,000 and below, aligning with the bottom 40 % income group (B40) as categorized by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM 2021), with RM4,850 as the threshold as of 2019. In the realm of academic...
The mean household income in Malaysia, between 2009 and 2012, enjoyed a higher than average annual growth rate of 7.2%, putting it ahead of GDP growth. This compares favourably with a CAGR of 4.4% from 2007 to 2009, according to Malaysia’s Department of Statistics. With about 70% of Mal...
The equatorial climate (absence of heating systems) and the lifestyle with big families, turned Malaysia into a country with one of thebiggest houses in the world. Average household size dropped from 4.62 in 2000 to 4.31 in 2010 (source:census report, page 31andstatistics.gov.my), I am in...
Household final 23 Total debt service 6 IBRD loans and IDA credits 4 Tourism 21 Income 24 Tourism expenditures 5 Income distribution 4 Tourism receipts 5 Income payments 4 Tourist arrivals by region of origin 8 Income receipts 4 Trade 1641 Inequality 8 Trademark applications 3 Inflation...
Household Income Survey (HIS) was carried out by the Malaysian government to obtain information on the status of income and poverty in Malaysia. HIS conducted by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) twice every five years. The data used as input for monitoring, planning, and policy form...
Consumer electronics include smartphones, household appliances, computers, laptops, televisions, game consoles, and wearables. As product launches increase in the consumer electronics sector, e-commerce is becoming more popular for purchasing those items. The rising emphasis on luxury items in the ...
(Chakrabarty and Mukherjee, 2022), and income per capita (Nguyen and Nguyen, 2019; Tabetando et al., 2022) but in this study, welfare is captured by income quintile, measured as 1 = households within the richest fourth 20% and fifth 20%; and 0 = household within the poorest ...