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                                <title><![CDATA[ Welfare officers threaten elderly couple forced to spend Raya on KL streets ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ Their behaviour contrasts with the overwhelming public sympathy for the couple who became homeless last year. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Focus on the poor before checking welfare of T20 'eligible' for targeted subsidies, govt told ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ The spending habits of the upper income bracket need to be scrutinised more closely, says one expert. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ In Middle East, poor miss out as 'faulty' algorithms target aid ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Lebanon is one of nine Arab nations using an algorithm-powered poverty assessment formula funded by the World Bank that ranks welfare applicants according to dozens of different data points. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ A year later, Sri Lanka's tentative economic recovery eludes the poor ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The central bank expects the economy to resume growth this quarter after six quarters of contraction - faster than expected by many economists - while overseas remittances are surging and tourist numbers are rising. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India's Rajasthan state to halve cooking gas price for poor hurting from inflation ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Tackling the problem of homelessness ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:25:01 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Homelessness might appear to be a complicated issue but people will suffer if nothing is done. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Poverty, Malaysia’s million-dollar problem ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 03:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The government should uplift incomes and economic opportunities for disadvantaged groups, say experts. ]]></description>
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