Interesting article in the Int. Herald Tribune, 9 July edition, pages 13 and 15, about how climatic disasters like typhoons and hurricanes may not be unremitting disasters for all time, though obviously they are bad news for those immediately affected.
It quotes a 2002 study in the Economic Inquiry journal by Skidmore and Toya that “mapped the frequency of disasters in 89 countries against their economic growth rates over a 30-year period… Nations with more climatic disasters grew faster over the long run than the less disaster-prone.”
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