According to World Bank statistics, the percentage of Venezuelans living under the poverty line declined from a peak of 62% in 2003 to 29% in 2009.

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Since then, a low-intensity war has raged--involving suicide bombers and targeted assassinations in Israel and the Palestinian territories--and has left hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis dead and half the Palestinian population living under the poverty line.

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