Economic Issues After The Haitian Earthquake

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For most developing countries there is a common social stigma that governments are corrupt and misusing the money, because of this governments like Haiti do not have adequate funding to meet the people’s needs. The Haitian earthquake caused many deaths, but the poor infrastructure caused even more people to die. The Haitian government needs to create stable housing for all the displaced people, so that what happened in earthquake would not reoccur. One of the biggest issues after the earthquake was the lack of space for all the injured people and patients would die outside the hospital because there was not enough space.

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