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A PARLIAMENTARY panel has proposed increasing the ‘line of basic life needs’ for a four-member Bahraini family to BD659 to cope with the soaring prices of commodities.
MP Ahmed Al Salloom, who chairs the parliamentary probe committee into citizens’ low standards of living, has called on the Social Development Ministry to adopt a new National Poverty Line in accordance with Bahrain’s socio-economic conditions, rather than rely on international benchmarks and indicators .
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