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“...are operating
in the high Himalaya of Nepal or the Caribbean island of
Haiti. In fact, many of the international specialists who
began to stream into Nepal after the quake seemed to
be selected for the job specifically because of their past
experience in Haiti.
As in other post-disaster situations (Simpson and Serafini
2015:17), the Nepal PDNA was an extremely rough and
hasty product. For instance, a friend and I were suddenly
invited into the World Bank office to comment on their
estimates for damage to the tourism sector based on our
severely limited experience working in Gorkha after the
earthquake. There were only a few days to the deadline
and the Bank needed to come up with some figures. The
ministries and international agencies involved in the PDNA
obviously did whatever they could to get the most accurate
estimates, but given the chaos of the aftermath and the
haste of the exercise (the PDNA needed to be incorporated
into an overdue financial bill to be passed by parliament),
the results...”
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