Poverty in Sarawak now below 1%


KUCHING: The rate of poverty in Sarawak dropped to below 1% (0.9%) last year, according to Malaysia's chief statistician, Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hasan.

The poverty rate reduction in 2012 was 2.4%, he said while launching a statistics transformation seminar organised by the state Statistics Department on Tuesday.

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