PUTRAJAYA: The World Bank has commended Malaysia for its strong progress in reducing poverty, particularly hardcore poverty, while noting that further improvements in education and health outcomes are ...

The World Bank has commended Malaysia for its strong progress in reducing poverty, particularly hardcore poverty, while noting that further improvements in education and health outcomes are crucial to ...

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said his administration could likely eradicate hardcore poverty by March next year, pointing ...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has been recognised as one of the countries close to eliminating hardcore poverty through the ...

FILE PHOTO: Girls make their way home after school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights expert on Friday disputed Malaysia's assertion that it has nearly eliminated ...

Malaysia must acknowledge that the country’s rapid economic growth has not benefited all of its residents, says Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. After ...

Lifting the two-child benefit limit – at a cost of £3bn – will improve the life chances of more than half a million young ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s success in lifting millions out of poverty, without creating permanent slums, is often overlooked. World Bank lead economist for Malaysia Dr Apurva Sanghi ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia >> A U.N. special rapporteur challenged Malaysia’s claim to have nearly ended poverty, saying an estimated one in six people in the Southeast Asian country are still considered ...

THE United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may seem like a distant term and idealistic to some, but Kimani ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights expert on Friday disputed Malaysia's assertion that it has nearly eliminated poverty, saying that official figures were vastly inaccurate and do ...

A U.N. human rights expert on Friday disputed Malaysia's assertion that it has nearly eliminated poverty, saying that official figures were vastly inaccurate and do not reflect realities on the ground ...