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Inhibitors to Success: Natural Disasters

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Article Overview: Like ill health, natural disasters are another area of vulnerability for the poor.

Inhibitors to Success: Natural Disasters

Like ill health, natural disasters are another area of vulnerability for the poor. Research
shows that when disaster strikes, the poor are not only in a greater danger of falling victim, but
suffer disproportionately greater losses. For poor people, the resulting lost income may force
them to sell their land, livestock or their tools, send their children to work rather than to school,
or eat less. Such drastic measures may mean survival, but they make it much harder for
vulnerable households to escape poverty.13 According to Salvano Briceño, Director of the
UN/ISDR Secretariat, “Investing in disaster risk reduction reduces the vulnerability of people to
hazards and helps break the vicious cycle of poverty. We need to engage the microfinance
community into a dialogue on reducing the impact of natural hazards on populations and
livelihoods."

Microfinance: A Platform for Social Change
by Marge Magner
March 2007
Grameen Foundation

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