Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told the Dewan Rakyat on Monday that the government started reviewing the poverty line from March to give a truer picture of the poverty situation in the country.br br He was replying to a question from Port Dickson MP Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on the government’s action following a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Prof Philip Alston on Aug 23 that Malaysia’s rate of poverty was 16 to 20, which was far off from the official figure of 0.4.