Since her university days, Laura has had a hard time finding accommodation. It wasn’t because there were limited rooms or houses to rent or she was unable to afford the
Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz recently announced Malaysia’s largest budget ever at RM332.1 billion. Themed as “Keluarga Malaysia, makmur sejahtera” (Malaysian family, prosperous and peaceful), the budget is based
The topic of the gender wage gap has often been on the table in Malaysia amongst various policymakers and as seen in the first part of this article, the disparity
The gender wage gap refers to the “difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings of men.” [1] In simpler terms, the gap is determined and
As Malaysia is battling the fourth wave of COVID-19, news of COVID-19 infection rates, hospitalizations and death rates has been plaguing the front page of our newspapers. Despite a slow
The issue of social mobility is a complex matter that has a deep connection and is entrenched by the social structure that spanned through generations. Our social strata are arbitrarily
Often, we are told that the path to success is linear. With talent or education, one would surely be able to carve out better days ahead, irrespective of the circumstances
Homelessness is an emotive word that conjures up images of people sleeping on the sidewalk, scavenging for food, smelly and scruffy or the drunk, dangerous, and dirty. Apart from these
“We cannot overcome poverty by giving the poor money. This will not make them rich. On the contrary, for as long as they receive aid, they will remain poor…” Tun
In 2019, Malaysia was categorised under the World Bank definition of an upper middle – income economy (DOSM, 2019), with the gross income per capita of RM45,131 with a monthly
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