COMMENT | How bumi economic congress can help underclass

COMMENT | Participants in the coming Bumiputera Economic Congress are likely to forget about or ignore the plight of the Malaysian poor and the underclass.

Whatever the national poverty situation is - we can expect the dispute over definition and numbers to continue indefinitely - the reality confronting our politicians and policymakers is that the country’s underclass (and this includes more than just households living below the official poverty line) is a sizeable part of our population.