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2023 Budget: RM1bil for 50,000 hardcore poor households to eradicate poverty

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will allocate RM1 billion in the 2023 Budget to eradicate absolute poverty in the country.

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said this would provide economic opportunities to more than 50,000 hardcore poor households.

He said the programmes that would be introduced to eradicate poverty include agriculture, farming and entrepreneurship.

Tengku Zafrul said this when tabling the 2023 Budget in Parliament today.

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