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Other investments often take precedence, and donors have historically funded emergency relief much more readily than pre-disaster preparedness.
In addition to assisting with emergency relief, it is crucial that the international community help to introduce basic procedures for responding long before disaster strikes.
Emergency shelters and evacuation routes must be planned and established using risk assessments and actual simulations.
If communities are to be expected to make use of available resources, they need to be involved in the design and development of emergency plans.
This shift in emphasis opens opportunities for contributions by the private sector as well, revolutionizing how education is provided in conflict zones and other emergency situations.
India’s War on Antimicrobial ResistanceCHENNAI – Last year, a 30-year-old teacher suffering from a severe bloodstream infection arrived in my emergency room for treatment.
A credible long-term program of reforms must be implemented now, while temporary emergency measures – bond purchases by the EFSF, IMF, and the ECB – provide breathing room.
Educating residents of low-lying coastal areas about the warning signs of a tsunami (tremors and a sudden recession in the ocean), establishing a warning system involving emergency broadcasts, telephoned warnings, and air-raid-type sirens, and improving emergency response systems would have saved many who were killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
In the meantime, several emerging economies will remain places from which you wish you could emerge in an emergency.
And if things got bad enough, Trump and his generals could declare a state of emergency, suspend civil liberties, and transform America into a true pluto-populist authoritarian state.
Judgment Day for the EurozoneMUNICH – Europe and the world are eagerly awaiting the decision of Germany’s Constitutional Court on September 12 regarding the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the proposed permanent successor to the eurozone’s current emergency lender, the European Financial Stability Mechanism.
Last week, King Gyanendra sacked his prime minister again, declared a state of emergency, and suspended civil liberties.
Leaders in Hungary and Poland have been dismantling constitutional protections;France has used a lengthy state of emergency to suspend rights; and British and American politicians have publicly denigrated judges.
More important, should the Council declare a state of financial emergency – such as the one we are in currently – the EU agencies might exceptionally be given a position of predominance over national supervisory authorities.
These boom-bust cycles do great damage, which is one reason why the IMF has responded with so many emergency loans in recent months.
An excess of poorly equipped health facilities is not only ineffective; it can actually make matters worse, owing to factors like poor sanitation and weak emergency referral systems.
The elements of a new Obama vision for the US-India relationship would be: an emergency joint task force to fast-track the development of sustainable solutions to meet India’s and the world’s burgeoning energy, water and food needs.
But last fall the government reneged, and the Global Fund issued the group an emergency grant for two years.
But, as we respond to the current humanitarian emergency due to higher food prices, we must not lose sight of the longer-term problems that have undermined food security in recent decades.
To avoid catastrophe, the world community must also meet the urgent emergency food and planting requirements mentioned above, including more generous budget and balance-of-payments support for low-income food-importing countries.
Nor will this kind of policy in any way create more security, because it entails making promises that won’t be kept in an emergency – as we now see in Georgia.
Three countries in the region – Hungary, Latvia, and Romania – required emergency standby programs with the International Monetary Fund.
When the sun failed to shine last winter, one emergency back-up plan powered up an Austrian oil-fired plant to fill the supply gap.
Yet, over the next year or so, several of our former colleagues may recognize that they, too, want some form of emergency brake on migration flows from one EU country to another.
Against this background, major changes in Fed policy – such as the decision to purchase trillions of dollars’ worth of securities or push interest rates to zero – could easily be subjected to legislative approval (except in times of emergency).
And organizations like the Global Partnership for Education, Sheikha Mozah’s Educate a Child foundation, and the Global Business Coalition for Education also contribute in times of emergency.
That means establishing an emergency education system that enables adequate funding to be released to UN agencies and operational NGOs at the onset of a crisis – not years later.
Last year, US President Barack Obama’s administration asked Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to help prepare for and respond to the Zika threat.
This has not only facilitated trade and transport, but also translates into faster response times for emergency services, saving thousands of lives each year.
Trust is the lifeblood of a thriving society, and much of the West needs an emergency transfusion.
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