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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