
COMMENT | The poverty of numbers
Poverty is a real, desperate lack of funds but for economic planners and politicians, poverty is just a numbers game.

Poverty is a real, desperate lack of funds but for economic planners and politicians, poverty is just a numbers game.

Union body alarmed after former UN man claims PN govt performing 'backflip' over poverty figures.

UPDATED 12.45PM | The latest poverty rate will be announced soon, says a minister.

Former UN special rapporteur Philip Alston claims then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had committed to revising the national poverty rate.

However, he believes that the poverty rate is not as bad as the UN rapporteur made out.

This is to help Harapan draft more positive economic programmes, the party says.

‘I encountered attitudes I would have expected in 19th century Australia, says the envoy.
