A/HRC/44/40/Add.3 are consistent. However, the World Bank recommend new PLI for Malaysia to USD3.20 per day as Malaysia is moving from low income to upper middle income country. • As Malaysia manages to reduce its absolute poverty incidence, efforts in poverty reduction have been shifted from absolute poverty to relative poverty starting Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP), 2011-2015). Relative poverty measures household standard of living between households. The OECD measures relative poverty as half of median income. The MTR 11MP states the threshold of low-income from B40 households which is equivalent to half of median income below RM2,614 involving around 1.08 million households (15.5%). The 15.5% for low income households close to various independent analyst figures claimed by the SR which include OECD, KRI and Martin Ravallion. During the Plan, emphasis and prioritize have been given to poor and low income households in increasing their socioeconomic status. • It is important to note that the SR neither stated its methodology in assessing poverty nor he describes whether the poverty being discussed is absolute, relative or multidimensional poverty. He quoted based on vigorous independent analyses without properly citing its source and methodology. The SR fails and ignorantly acknowledge that Malaysia has published in MTR 11MP, which is in his knowledge, that the low income households as described is equivalent to relative poverty as a reference. • Apart from that, the multidimensional poverty has been introduced in the MTR 11MP. MPI measures include health, education, standard of living and income dimensions. Paragraph 18 The illusion of poverty eradication has been reinforced through the deliberate exclusion of vast numbers of people from Malaysia’s calculations and analyses. Official statistics only capture the situation of those with Malaysian citizenship, leaving out millions of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and stateless people, all of whom are disproportionately affected by poverty. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • Official statistics in Malaysia are compiled using several sources, primarily through censuses and surveys, as well as administrative data. Data collection through the former have always covered all residence status such as permanent residence, expatriate, temporary residence, foreign students, foreign visitors, foreign workers and others (including refugees and stateless). However, as in many other countries, household surveys such as the Labour Force Survey and the Household Income and Basic Amenities Survey do not cover institutional households, where many migrant workers in Malaysia reside. Currently, Malaysia is working with the assistance of International Labour Organization in measuring SDG Indicator 10.7.1 Recruitment Costs of Migrant Workers through a stand-alone survey. • On another hand, reporting and analysis of official statistics are subject to requirements of the policies concerned. Paragraph 20 Virtually all independent analysis has concluded that a more realistic poverty measure would yield a much higher poverty rate. The highly respected economist Martin Ravallion found that, compared to countries with a roughly similar average income, one would expect Malaysia’s poverty line to include around 20 percent of the population. The Khazanah Research Institute found that a relative poverty measure of 60 percent of median income would show 22.2 percent of households in poverty as of 2016. And UNICEF said in 2019 that a relative poverty measure similar to that adopted by most OECD countries would place around 16 percent of the population in poverty. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • As Malaysia manages to reduce its absolute poverty incidence, efforts in poverty reduction are done through the perspective from both absolute poverty and relative poverty starting Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP), 2011-2015). Relative poverty measures household standard of living between households. The OECD measures relative poverty as half of 9