Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said today the higher cost of living cannot be avoided.

“It is inevitable. If a country wants to be a developed nation, then it must have a good and advanced infrastructure.

“So, of course there is a method to balance a better way of life with the prices of things that have increased," Hamzah said on the sidelines of the Umno general assembly in Kuala Lumpur.