Poverty and deprivation: using geographic information system in evaluating the accessibility of households to food retailers in Penang state, Malaysia.
Poverty eradication programs that have been devised since 1970s in Malaysia manage to reduce the percentage of poor population from 52.4% in 1970 to 12.4% in 1992 and further reduced to 3.8% in 2009. Although the number of poor population in rural or urban areas was reduced significantly, relative a...
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Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2012
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5639/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5639/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5639/1/narimah012.pdf |