However, he concedes that 18% of Bosnians live below the poverty line, and another 30% just above it.
Bushwick is recovering now, but half of the children under age 18 still live below the poverty line.
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It was a sobering but educational look at Indonesia, where some 40 million people live below the poverty line.
The World Bank estimates that 42% of Yemenis live below the poverty line.
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Well-founded doubts also exist about whether such schemes really reach the 250m-300m Indians who live below the poverty line.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains shaky--20% of the population live below the poverty line and unemployment is at an estimated 20%.
Although the economy grew about 7% in 2012, unemployment stands at 16% and more than 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
Most of the people Mr Perry is referring to live below the poverty line, and still pay payroll taxes on what little they earn.
For one, the authorities don't have proper data on the very poor - officially, 37% of India's 1.2 billion people live below the poverty line.
"Over 600, 000 children live below the poverty line and London is home to some of the most deprived boroughs in the country, " said Mr Johnson.
Tens of millions of Bangladeshis still live below the poverty line.
Some two-thirds of Zambia's 12m-plus people live below the poverty line.
The majority of Nigerians frown at such flagrant displays of opulence, particularly on the path of their clergymen, given that 60% of Nigerians still live below the poverty line.
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Roughly 60 percent of the YES kids live below the poverty line, and all kinds of unpredictable problems arise as they transition from Lennox or Buford to Brentwood and Harvard-Westlake.
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Her story is a familiar one in a country where 81% of Filipinos are devout Roman Catholic and 30% live below the poverty line, according to the Philippine National Statistics Office.
The plan was meant to make life easier for people like Bety Bustillo, age 56, and her husband, Luis, 55, two of the more than 20% of Galveston's population who live below the poverty line.
South Africa's 2010 Local Organising Committee chairman Danny Jordaan said the special tickets were an attempt to make watching the finals as accessible as possible to South Africa's population, more than half of whom live below the poverty line.
Many live below the poverty line.
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This makes sense in a country where two-fifths of the population depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, and where one-third live below the official poverty line.
It's estimated that fully one-third of Detroiters live at or below the poverty line, the highest rate of any city with a population of at least 250, 000.
In Cartagena, where one-third of residents live at or below the poverty line, it's an equation that means these young mothers have very little chance of improving their lives.
Although the exact numbers of smokers in housing projects are unknown, about 30 percent of Americans living below the poverty line smoke tobacco, more than 1.5 times the rate of those who live above it.
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