"Over the past two decades, the international community committed just under $110 billion to disaster relief, prevention and preparedness. This is a small sum when you consider that costs related to disaster recovery worldwide now average close to $200 billion per year, with almost 75 percent of this due to weather-related disasters. And only a little more than 10 percent of disaster aid has funded prevention and preparedness. Compare this to Japan, which allocates about 80 percent of its disaster risk management budget to preparedness".Read More....
Growing Energy Consumption, Driven by World Population and Income Growth, Will be a Challenging Future to the World in General and Africa in Particular. This blogger Researches the Energy Industry and Shares and Gives an Insight of Better Practices, Innovations and updates to policy Makers, Utility providers, Consultants and Electricity consumers for Them to Act Not Just Economically but also Responsibly. Please Continue Reading the Articles Below.
Monday, 16 March 2015
Remarks by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
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