"Many people in developing countries don't rely much on governments, and even after a disaster, they just go ahead and do it, " said Peter McCawley, an economist at the Australian National University and a specialist on disaster relief policy.
It is a foreign policy disaster in the making.
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Those should be made available to all the provinces and districts for active response as well as to National Disaster Management Authority for policy formulation and strategic guidance and to Federal Flood Commission for monitoring of flood infrastructure.
The current drug war is a disaster, but any policy that increases availability still further will almost certainly lead to a catastrophic upsurge in random, drug-fuelled violence, as drug-gorging addicts lose their minds in a psychotic orgy of mass destruction.
In a sense, the right to go bust is an insurance policy against financial disaster.
He confessed his sanctions policy was a disaster, thanks to Saddam, and left mass poverty and starving children in Iraq.
Ultimately, though, the policy was a PR disaster, says First Amendment attorney Lawrence Walter.
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But the idea that money manipulation is smart policy has repeatedly caused disaster.
The Youth Delegates will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Young Professionals of the UNESCO Science Sector specializing in the fields of water, biodiversity, ecology, earth sciences, science education, disaster risk reduction, and science policy.
Everyone knows fiscal and monetary policy in Japan was a disaster of timidity and conservatism.
The campaign flopped but the Senator picked up the pieces and earned respect with a best selling book advocating public policy change to avert environmental disaster.
When four past chiefs of the Shin Bet security service declared in November that the present policy was leading Israel to disaster, the whole country caught its breath.
Relying on old-fashioned trade statistics for 21st century policy decisions is a recipe for disaster.
Increasing the vulnerability of American spacecraft and denying us the means to neutralize others' space assets -- two facets of the current Clinton policy -- are invitations to disaster.
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If he is to avoid a similar disaster, he must come up with a clear policy on business-labour issues, and then show some resolve.
But the country was running a budget surplus before that, and a continuing tight fiscal policy has not only not caused a Keynesian disaster, but has accompanied a strong rebound.
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China's one-child policy is a violation of rights and a demographic disaster, upsetting the balance between the sexes and between generations.
Recent tragic events, which started as natural calamity and almost ended as a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, proved that Japan needs more conscientious and sustainable energy policy.
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Disaster and strife would dominate any account of the government's rural policy.
And that has been our policy that there has been a delay in the schedule because of the disaster.
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The husband-and-wife team of Leslie (director and writer) and Andrew (writer) Cockburn, veterans of many documentaries on arms policy and nuclear weapons, have finally made a movie about a nuclear disaster that actually happened their subject is the social ecology of the recent financial meltdown.
Having made a policy decision to replace nuclear power with other sources of energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, we believe that Japan will opt for LNG as one of the alternative sources.
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For all those in this category, the new policy will provide rapid relief: insurers will pay up as soon as the scale of the disaster has been determined (by a recognised international meteorological office), whatever view the aid agencies take.
Coordinate and provide substantive support to Member States and other key stakeholders in the form of policy advice and guidance, strategy development, capacity-building and programme design in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education, through the medium of formal, non-formal and informal education and public awareness-raising.
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So is the government contemplating a change of policy, or a change of prime minister, in order to rescue both itself and the country from disaster?
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