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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."