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Disaster-prone Asia vulnerable to rising risks

Asia’s poorest countries have few defenses against natural disasters and will have to get used to living with their enormous human and economic toll, according to a study by the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap). The agency’s annual ‘Disaster Report’ predicts that 40% of worldwide economic losses from disasters […]

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