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Science 12 August 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5737, pp. 1044 - 1046
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116783
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Refocusing Disaster Aid

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Reinhard Mechler and Georg Pflug

The authors are at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.


Fig. 1. Fatalities per event and direct economic losses as a share of national per capita income over the period 1980 to 2004. Country income groups according to World Bank classification using GNI per capita. Lower-middle and upper-middle income groups were combined. [View Larger Version of this Image (38K GIF file)]
 

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