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Nicaragua: Living in the Eye of the Storm

In: The Humanitarian Response Index 2008

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  • Silvia Hidalgo

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Nicaragua has a long and painful history of sudden-onset disasters precipitated by natural phenomena which have devastated lives, particularly those of the poor and most vulnerable, and suffocated the country’s economic and human development. Poverty is widespread, with 46 percent of the population living below the poverty line. Only Haiti is poorer in Latin America. According to the World Bank, Nicaragua is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, having suffered a major disaster every two years for the last century. In the past decade alone, over 1.35 million people have been displaced or affected by disasters; over 3,500 have lost their lives, and between US$1.5 and US$3 billion of economic damage has been sustained.

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  • Silvia Hidalgo, 2009. "Nicaragua: Living in the Eye of the Storm," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Humanitarian Response Index 2008, pages 178-185, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58461-7_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230584617_14
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