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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1%

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

For instance, Dawson County, Georgia indicates in their 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report that transfers are used to “1) supplement operating budgets, 2) help fund construction projects and debt service, and 3) move the County’s matching portion on federal and state grants.”.