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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Baghdad - Fadhel al-Nashmi

A Quarter of Iraq's Population Lives Below the Poverty Line

Displaced women at a camp in Amriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad (EPA)

A quarter of Iraq's population lives below the poverty line, despite the estimated $100 billion reserves at the Central Bank of Iraq, the largest in the country's modern history, according to bank sources.

Economists and finance experts believed Iraq's problem was not related to its wealth but to lousy management and unfair distribution.

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