Poverty and deprivation: using geographic information system in evaluating the accessibility of households to food retailers in Penang state, Malaysia.

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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Main Authors: Narimah Samat, Yasin Abdalla Eltayeb Elhadary, Fatimah Mahdi Hijles, Suriati Ghazali, Morshidi Sirat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5639/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5639/1/narimah012.pdf

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