| The Institute sets the poverty line at 50 percent of the median disposable income in the economy. |
| Since 1996, living standards have improved the most for children who were living just below the poverty line. |
| Engcobo is also one of the poorest districts in the province with 76 percent of the population living below the poverty line. |
| Forty years earlier, a family at the poverty line had an income that was 42.6 percent of the median income. |
| Each of these groups contains a high concentration of those below the poverty line. |
| With half the population below the poverty line and one-third out of work, the utility hikes may well simply be unsustainable. |
