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Higher Risks:
As the worlds population concentrates in
cities and disasters hit undetermined areas
we are seeing an that disasters and risk are
becoming urbanized. The population growth is
mostly taking place in urban settings of lowincome and middle income nations, where
poverty not only enables underdevelopment
and a lack of protective infrastructure.
Continued
It is not a coincidence that the past fourteen
years have produced urban disasters throughout
different cities in low- income nations in our world.
Not only do they have deep-rooted problems such
as poverty, government, healthcare and lifestandards inefficiency, but are unable to move
forwards on their own, i.e. without the contributions
or involvement of international donors.
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