Quality of Life amongst Agropolitan Participant Project: A Malaysian Experience

Yusof Ahmad, Hamid Saad, Eusoff @Yendo Afgani, Naeemah Yusof
2014 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences  
Quality of Life (QOL) issues have increasingly been the area of attention in cities of newly developing countries including Malaysia. To improve QOL for people of absolute poverty in Malaysia, the Malaysian government have carried out a program known as Agropolitan in the East Coast Economic Region. The three Agropolitan project locations selected for this study are Batu 8 Lepar and Runchang in Pekan, Pahang and Gua Musang in Kelantan. This study carried out a field survey on 254 samples to
more » ... stigate their experiences throughout the project. This study found that Agropolitan project had remarkably improved the QOL of participants.
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.081 fatcat:7rfa2efwjbhcza7dttixvxypki