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Haiyan: A Disaster Made Worse by Greed

Nov 15, 2013
The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, has had little hand in creating the conditions that nurtured Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda, as it's known locally), possibly the worst storm in recorded human history.The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, had little hand in creating the conditions that nurtured Typhoon Haiyan.