NEW BUDGET STANDARD POVERTY LINES FOR MALAYSIA

Muniappan Perumal

Review of Income and Wealth, 1992, vol. 38, issue 3, 341-353

Abstract: In this paper, shortcomings of the official poverty line are examined. A new set of budget standard poverty lines were derived for various years between 1959 and 1981, by first estimating the food budget for Malaysian households. Then, an allowance for non‐food items was obtained on the basis of the estimated food budget, and the relationship between the proportion of income allocated on food and non‐food items, together yielding the poverty line. The results suggest that the official and other estimates of the poverty line income were generally higher, and thus have overestimated the extent of poverty in Malaysia.

Date: 1992
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