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El Niño phenomenon requires coordinated action
Posted On 17 Aug 2019
Rodney Martinez, international director of CIIFEN, warned of the consequences that could arise from the presence of El Niño phenomenon, as it happened in 1977-78, and the need to take coordinated action to face the natural phenomenon, and the most important: to have informed and prepared citizens.
Martinez said it is important to have as a reference El Niño of 1977-78, because its impact around the world was of 100 000 million, distributed asymmetrically in all countries.
In the case of Ecuador, there was a loss of 2 800 million according to figures from the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), 352 dead and 30,000 homeless. The effect on gross domestic product (GDP) was 14.6%, and there was a decline in the economy of 1, 8%.
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