 There are also Asians who own many shops in urban centres and Europeans working in conservation, mining, tourism or for the Catholic Church.While there had been many French nationals living in Anosy during the French occupation of Madagascar, most had left by the mid-1970s.Most of the people who live in Anosy are very poor, with an estimated GDP per capita in 2004 of just $180, when the national average was $210.