Enhanced Poverty Assessment through Advanced Analytical Models within the Malaysia MADANI Framework
This paper presents a research framework for an innovative poverty assessment methodology aligned with the Malaysia MADANI Framework's objectives of eradicating poverty and promoting inclusive economic growth. Traditional approaches to household categorization often neglect critical demographic variables and the unequal distribution of income, leading to an incomplete understanding of poverty. To address these limitations, the framework integrates mixture ordinal regression models with machine learning algorithms, leveraging the strengths of statistical modeling and a