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Disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with aspirational plans to “build back better”. It’s a fine sentiment, but, as the Cheshire Cat tells Alice when she is lost, where we ought to go depends very much on where we want to get to, writes Professor Ilan Noy.
It will be the reactions of governments and individuals to the perceived threat of coronavirus, and not the virus itself, that will have the biggest costs, writes Professor Ilan Noy, Wellington School of Business and Government's Chair in the Economics of Disasters.
Insurers must speed up pay-outs after disasters if local economies are to recover quickly, according to new research from a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington graduand.
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