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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

A World Meteorological Organization report found that deaths during natural disasters fell from 50,000 in the 1970s to less than 20,000 in 2010. The systems currently available handle alerting the public and continuity of communication in a bi-directional manner.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case. Her research investigates public finance, public budgeting implementation, public working capital management, and fiscal institutions.

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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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