According to the Azerbaijani government's official 2009 annual report from it's state oil agency, the country received US$10bn from it's oil exports. About 60% of this was included in the national budget, but only about half a billion was actually used for public infrastructure projects. The remaining US$5.5bn is sitting in the 'National Oil Fund', meanwhile, many Azerbaijani's live well below the poverty line, and infrastructure outside the affluent cities is almost non-existent. Within this report, we get to hear from some journalists who have tried to expose the high-level governmental corruption relating to the nation's oil wealth, and how they have been silenced for many years. Yet again, we see that rich oil exports fail to benefit the general population in a developing nation.