Now, with half the population below the poverty line as a result of the financial crash, there is little doubt that the family grew wealthy at the expense of the nation.
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.
In a country in which almost half of the population lives below the poverty line and with an unemployment rate over 13%, he chose to lose his job.
Over the past three decades, urban poverty has grown distinctly worse and the number of people living in ghettos where 40% of the population is below the poverty line has doubled.
Iran cries out for a proper welfare system, directed at those most in need: 15% of the population subsist below the poverty line, and average living standards are no higher than 20 years ago.
According to figures cited by the World Bank in a 2005 study, a fifth of the country's population live below the poverty line.
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Mr Brown, on a week-long tour of Africa, spent two days in Tanzania before heading on Friday evening to Mozambique, a country where more than half of the 17-million population lives below the poverty line.
Around 20% of the population was living below the poverty line at the height of the first post-Soviet financial crisis in 1998 and 1999.
The financial collapse that brought about President Suharto's resignation in 1998 pushed more than a quarter of the country's population below the official poverty line.
Potential overseas backers have withdrawn their support, stating that there is no way that the animals' safety can be guaranteed while Angola is still at war and 70% of its human population lives below the poverty line.
Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, financial asset-holding and the access to and quality of public services since the first free elections in 1994, the current (2011) unemployment rate is 21 per cent and over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.
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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.
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.
Some 140 million Indonesians, 66% of the population, could slip below the poverty line by the end of 1999, says the International Labor Organization.
Although India is seeing rapid growth, more than 40% of its population still lives below the poverty line.
More than half the population of the town of Tunica itself still lives below the poverty line, and unemployment there is 17%.
The Indonesian government now estimates that 40% of the population 80m people are living below the poverty line.
The number of Russians living in poverty rose another 1.1% last year to a total of around 13% of the population, or 18.1 million living below the national poverty line, government statistical agency Rosstat reported on Thursday.
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.
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.
Despite its ever-growing population of nouveau riche, more than 400 million Indians still live below the poverty line.
Despite a much-aired fall in the poverty rate from 69% in 1997 to 54% in 2003, the absolute number living below the poverty line rose to 11.7m in a population of around 20m.
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.
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