The factors that contributes to poverty in Malaysia from 1986 to 2017 / Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati Ibrahim

Ibrahim, Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati (2019) The factors that contributes to poverty in Malaysia from 1986 to 2017 / Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati Ibrahim. [Student Project] (Unpublished)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the factors that contributes to the poverty rate in Malaysia.
The independent variables for this study are education expenditure, debt, gross domestic
products, inflation, population and unemployment. Meanwhile, the dependent variable for this
study is poverty rate. This study used secondary data and collected for 31 years of period from
1986 to 2017. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) result shows that all of the variables except for
population are insignificant but other studies proves that the variables are actually significance
with each other.in addition, the Granger-Causality test also used in this study to identify the
variables whether in short or long run relationship. The result shows that all of the variables
are in long run relationship.

Metadata

Item Type:	Student Project
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Ibrahim, Qurratul 'Ainni Izzati 2016631574
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory. Demography > Consumption. Demand (Economic theory) > Consumption (Economics) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory. Demography > Demographic surveys H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions > Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions > Poor. Poverty
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah > Kota Kinabalu Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Programme:	Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Business Economics
Keywords:	Poverty; Education expenditure; Debt; Gross domestic products; Inflation; Population; Unemployment
Date:	June 2019
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47710