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U N says Honduras hurricane losses total $1 9 bln, far below government estimate

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Residents of the Colonia Libertad receive goods from a political party after their homes were flooded by the rains brought by Hurricanes Eta and Iota, in Villanueva, Honduras December 6, 2020. Picture taken December 6, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Hurricanes Eta and Iota have caused about 45.7 billion lempiras ($1.9 billion) in damages and losses in Honduras, according to the United Nations economic commission for the region, a far lower estimate than the government’s figure of $10 billion. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said it conducted the evaluation of losses and damages at the request of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and that it was assisted by the government, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD).

In sickness and in health - Himal Southasian

In sickness and in health How border regions can be central to building a post-pandemic Southasia. (This article is part of our special series Unmasking Southasia: The pandemic issue. You can read the editorial note to the series here.) In many ways, the call for the regional revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 was designed to fail. After all, the geopolitical red tape that followed the creation of the COVID-19 Emergency Fund played to a predictable pattern of gridlocked regionalism, with India and Pakistan at loggerheads about how the funding was to be disbursed. Plagued by chronic trust deficit, weak institutionalisation and stasis, Southasia once again finds itself between a rock and a hard place. This failure raises fundamental questions about how Southasia chooses to engage with questions of benefit sharing, trade-offs and the allocation of risks and burdens within the neighbourhood. But the

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