Sentences with phrase «disasters at household»

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Atif Mian, an economics professor at Princeton, and Amir Sufi, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago, conclude that economic disasters are «almost always» preceded by a large increase in household debt.

If you're about to tackle one of these common household disasters, give yourself a pep talk and focus on the task at hand.

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

Studies suggest that more appropriate questions could focus on resilience, by looking at the percentage of households that report having a stable food supply throughout the year and the average length of time for which households in the community have an emergency food supply after a disaster.

At its center is the «bastard» of the title, Asya, a nineteen - year - old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.

Emergency responders help all household members «You may not be able to prevent a disaster from occurring, but you can reduce its impact with a little planning,» advises Dr. Loukia Agapis, a veterinarian at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana.

Lapodiya, a village of 200 households in Rajasthan, is a shining example of how environment governance at the grassroots level can save a village from natural disasters... Read more

Also, since the price difference is minimal, especially for something so important to every household, many residents choose this plan because they realize that natural disasters can strike anyone at any time.

Experts at the symposium said natural disasters would become more manageable financially for everyone if Congress would pass legislation that authorized the federal government to backstop insurers in a catastrophe, allow insurers and reinsurers to set aside large capital reserves tax - free to pay for catastrophes, and let households maintain tax - exempt disaster recovery accounts to help pay for rebuilding that's not covered by their insurance.

The project, directed by HHI's Disaster Response Office, will provide tools and building materials to help people in those areas reconstruct existing houses, with the cost per individual household estimated at $ 300.