Malaysia – On March 28, the Dewan Negara announced that the Federal Territories Ministry has established a Poverty Unit at the ministry and agency levels to address the problem of urban poverty on a continuing basis. Its Deputy Minister, Datuk Seri Jalaluddin Alias, said the unit was set up under the Labuan Corporation for the Federal Territory of Labuan, in …

Indonesia – The Head of the Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Agency Febrio Kacaribu has ascribed the proceeded with decrease in the public neediness and disparity rates – notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic-to thorough government approaches and social security programs. In view of this, The proceeded with decrease in the destitution and imbalance rates can be ascribed to strategies that the office …

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has set off a worldwide monetary emergency, is representing a genuine test to numerous nations, including Indonesia, in their endeavors to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of finishing neediness by 2030. Inferable from the pandemic’s effect on the economy, worldwide destitution could increment interestingly since 1990, addressing an inversion of roughly a time of worldwide …

PETALING JAYA: Unemployment rates among low-income urban households in Malaysia doubled in the Klang Valley during the conditional lockdown implemented last year, says a report by Unicef, the United Nations children’s fund. A survey of 500 households in Kuala Lumpur’s low-cost flats showed that unemployment had risen from 7% in September to 15% in December, with one in three unemployed …

More than 100 million children in the Southeast Asia region are in danger of slipping into poverty caused by the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. According to United Nations report there have been a rapid acceleration in the number of infected people with India leading the caseload with over 440,000 infections. In the UNICEF report “Lives upended: How COVID-19 threatens the futures …

The percentage of Thais living in poverty has fallen dramatically over the past three decades, from over 65% in 1988 to under 10% in 2018. However, that trend has reversed in recent years with stalled household incomes and consumption bringing a rise in poverty, according to a new World Bank report. Between 2015 and 2018, the poverty rate in Thailand …