Economic Impact of the 2007 Earthquake in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Four Provinces of Peru : What Did Unpreparedness Cost the Country?

Between 1996 and 2005, natural catastrophic events had an estimated cost of US$575.2 billion world-wide. In particular, it has been observed that developing countries are relatively more affected by such events, since its gross domestic product (GD...

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Main Author: Andrade, Raul
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/05/14572213/disaster-risk-management-water-sanitation-economic-impact-2007-earthquake-water-sanitation-sector-four-provinces-peru-unpreparedness-cost-country
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17292

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