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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. The outbreak killed 9,000 Haitians and infected 800,000.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Based on the real monthly updates on the Florida state and county unemployment rates in 2020, we estimated each county’ unemployment rate in 2021 and 2022 to forecast the revenue impact for FY 2022 and FY 2023. Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J.