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Forewarned, but not Forearmed? : Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010

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As climate change results in recurrent and more frequent natural disasters, each calamityproves instructional for the future. The author summarizes the lessons learned from the social protection and widerdisaster response in the 2010 floods in Pakistan and discuss how they can benefit ongoing efforts to recover from thefloods in the country in 2022, and other settings.

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  • Ghorpade,Yashodhan, 2022. "Forewarned, but not Forearmed? : Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 176248, The World Bank.
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