The study also showed that the income of the poorest population was approaching, in relative terms, the international poverty line over the period: the distance between the income of the poorest and the poverty line was reduced from 6% to 2.3%.

FORBES: Getting Better To Be Poor In Brazil

Some 140 million Indonesians, two-thirds of the population, could slip below the poverty line by the end of 1999, says the International Labor Organization.

FORBES: What devaluation hath wrought

Some 140 million Indonesians, 66% of the population, could slip below the poverty line by the end of 1999, says the International Labor Organization.

FORBES: What devaluation hath wrought