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Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil

Rakodi and Llyod-Jones (2002) explain that vulnerability is a threat to the urban poor. It includes the ability of the poor to recover or be resilient to overcome shocks, stresses, and longterm socio-economic life difficulties. However, Moser (1996) argues that the ability to avoid or reduce vulnera...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah, Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Economics
Income. Factor shares
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Races. Including race as a social group and race relations in general
Rural groups. Rural sociology
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spelling my.uitm.ir.549442022-01-25T01:20:24Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54944/ Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya Economics Income. Factor shares Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Races. Including race as a social group and race relations in general Rural groups. Rural sociology Rakodi and Llyod-Jones (2002) explain that vulnerability is a threat to the urban poor. It includes the ability of the poor to recover or be resilient to overcome shocks, stresses, and longterm socio-economic life difficulties. However, Moser (1996) argues that the ability to avoid or reduce vulnerability depends on the capacity of the poor to manage and transform these assets into income, food, or other necessities to sustain their livelihood. Nevertheless, the outbreak of COVID-19 poses a significant threat and economic vulnerability for the urban poor in sustaining their livelihood. The first case of COVID-19 was brought into Malaysia by Chinese nationals in February 2020. As of 24 September 2021, Malaysia reported more than 2 million COVID-19 cases (Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2021). The economic catastrophe of the COVID-19 is tremendous. The latest Gini Coefficient score released by the Department of Statistics, Malaysia (2020) measures income and wealth inequality within a country, increased by 0.008 index points from 0.399 in 2016 to 0.407 in 2019, indicating the income gap between households is widening. As of today, the COVID-19 and movement restriction had adversely affected the poor urban. The socio-economic factors of approximately half of the low-income households living in the capital city's public flats worsened further in the fourth quarter of 2020 (UNICEF & UNFPA, 2020). 2021 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54944/1/54944.pdf ID54944 Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah and Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya (2021) Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil. In: E-Proceeding 8th International Conference on Public Policy and Social Science (ICoPS) 2021, 27 Oktober 2021.
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topic Economics
Income. Factor shares
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Races. Including race as a social group and race relations in general
Rural groups. Rural sociology
spellingShingle Economics
Income. Factor shares
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Races. Including race as a social group and race relations in general
Rural groups. Rural sociology
Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya
Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
description Rakodi and Llyod-Jones (2002) explain that vulnerability is a threat to the urban poor. It includes the ability of the poor to recover or be resilient to overcome shocks, stresses, and longterm socio-economic life difficulties. However, Moser (1996) argues that the ability to avoid or reduce vulnerability depends on the capacity of the poor to manage and transform these assets into income, food, or other necessities to sustain their livelihood. Nevertheless, the outbreak of COVID-19 poses a significant threat and economic vulnerability for the urban poor in sustaining their livelihood. The first case of COVID-19 was brought into Malaysia by Chinese nationals in February 2020. As of 24 September 2021, Malaysia reported more than 2 million COVID-19 cases (Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2021). The economic catastrophe of the COVID-19 is tremendous. The latest Gini Coefficient score released by the Department of Statistics, Malaysia (2020) measures income and wealth inequality within a country, increased by 0.008 index points from 0.399 in 2016 to 0.407 in 2019, indicating the income gap between households is widening. As of today, the COVID-19 and movement restriction had adversely affected the poor urban. The socio-economic factors of approximately half of the low-income households living in the capital city's public flats worsened further in the fourth quarter of 2020 (UNICEF & UNFPA, 2020).
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya
author_facet Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Jamil, Nur Fatima Aisya
author_sort Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
title Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
title_short Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
title_full Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
title_fullStr Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
title_full_unstemmed Realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor Malay families during Covid-19 pandemic / Nor Hafizah Mohamed Harith and Nur Fatima Aisya Jamil
title_sort realities of economic livelihood strategies of urban poor malay families during covid-19 pandemic / nor hafizah mohamed harith and nur fatima aisya jamil
publishDate 2021
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54944/1/54944.pdf
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