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Brazil: flooding highlights lack of disaster prevention
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Inter Press Service International Association
The unusual heavy rainfall affecting 10 Brazilian states - many of them in the dry Northeast region - in the past weeks highlights the lack of public investments and policies to prevent disasters, reports the Inter Press Service (IPS).
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Brazil
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