Publication

Feb 2010

As the dust clears from the rubble that is now Port au Prince the UN announced that governments and aid agencies rebuilding Haiti should save at least 10 percent of the money collected to rebuild Haiti for future disasters. This request for a disaster set aside underscores just how vulnerable Haiti is after a 7.0 earthquake on the Richter scale leveled Port au Prince in what must be the worst natural disaster in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

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Author Johanna Mendelson Forman
Series CIDOB Notes Internacionals
Issue 10
Publisher Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
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