Today’s chart of the day comes to us via Reza Moghadam, who writes at IMF Direct. The chart makes it readily apparent that the so-called 100 year floods seem to come along every decade or so:
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Chart courtesy of IMF
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Source:
Global Safety Nets: Crisis Prevention in an Age of Uncertainty
Reza Moghadam
iMFdirect, September 9, 2010
http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2010/09/09/global-safety-nets-crisis-prevention-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/
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