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The factors that contributes to poverty in Malaysia from 1986 to 2017 / Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati Ibrahim

The aim of this study is to determine the factors that contributes to the poverty rate in Malaysia. The independent variables for this study are education expenditure, debt, gross domestic products, inflation, population and unemployment. Meanwhile, the dependent variable for this study is povert...

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Main Author: Ibrahim, Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics)
Demographic surveys
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
Poor. Poverty
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47710/1/47710.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47710/
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Summary:The aim of this study is to determine the factors that contributes to the poverty rate in Malaysia. The independent variables for this study are education expenditure, debt, gross domestic products, inflation, population and unemployment. Meanwhile, the dependent variable for this study is poverty rate. This study used secondary data and collected for 31 years of period from 1986 to 2017. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) result shows that all of the variables except for population are insignificant but other studies proves that the variables are actually significance with each other.in addition, the Granger-Causality test also used in this study to identify the variables whether in short or long run relationship. The result shows that all of the variables are in long run relationship.

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