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Natural Disasters In Africa And The 2010 Earthquake In Haiti

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1.5 Exposure to natural disasters. Natural disasters such as floods, earthquake, tsunamis or hurricane cause loss of life and a great damage making it hard to eradicate poverty. Typically, poor countries are the worst hit for they have the least resources to rebuild and sustain. The 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti are all examples of the ways that vulnerability to natural disasters can ruin large parts of affected nations. In each of these events; displaced populations, health risks, food scarcity, destruction of properties and resources are some of the effects leading to great economic damage. Without foreign aid assistance, governments in these countries would have never been able to help meet the needs …show more content…

The labor force suffers when a large part of the citizens cannot contribute to economic development. For example, the Indian economy has not been able to develop at a high rate for many years because of the high number of people living in poverty. About twenty two percent of the population in India lives in poverty and their economy can only improve when this percentage …show more content…

Mostly lack nutritious meals which reduce the bodies’ resistance to diseases, lack of appropriate resources to maintain a healthy living style and also poor sanitation conditions which attract flies, bad smells and other infections are the common causes of diseases. In medicine, poor people cannot afford the medical costs so they either end up going to unskilled traditional healers or treating themselves at home which is not effective for example pregnant women giving birth at home may lead to death . And about the issue of life expectancy, World Health Report (2004) quotes life expectancy falls in poorest countries. Other research shows that life expectancy in poor nations is up to 30 years below that of wealthy nations with a significant number of children under the age of 5 years old dying due to the effect of malnutrition like kwashiorkor and

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