Two-thirds of South Asians are living in poverty and only a redistribution of benefits of economic growth will lift them out of the rut, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official said. "On the basis of a poverty line of two dollars a day, which is no generous standard, well over two-thirds of people in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan live in poverty," said Geert van der Linden, vice president of the Manila-based ADB.