Consider This: Food Affordability — Is It Prices or Wages?

Are Malaysians struggling to afford food because of rising prices—or because wages are too low? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Teoh Ai Ni, Research Associate at Khazanah Research Institute and author of the series ‘From Home Cooking to Eating Out, and Dr Amjad Rabi, a social security economist who is currently a visiting expert at Universiti Malaya’s Social Wellbeing Research Centre, who recently co-authored a paper on ‘Food Affordability in Malaysia: When Markets and Money Decide What to Eat’.