The psychological, environmental and socio economic problems it created will have long term effects.

It was a necessary, if infuriating, act of salvation to avoid economic disaster.

Deeply concerned also at the impact of the disaster on the economic, social and humanitarian situation in Mozambique,

The narrow view of the catastrophe s economic impact is that Japan doesn t really matter anymore.

The big losers from this economic disaster are workers in the advanced countries that bought into the laissez faire flexibility of American style capitalism.

The States affected are all developing countries, and for them this is a major calamity billions of dollars in damage and the destruction of economic livelihoods.

Disaster and Development

Often, the guilty blame the economic catastrophe on the sinister manipulations of foreigners like the gnomes of Zurich or the IMF. The US is far from that point.

But there is also the intense pressure under which Greek society is now functioning and the extraordinary courage with which ordinary citizens are coping with economic disaster.

I am sorry for this catastrophe I am sorry for this calamity

As we have seen in recent days, it will take a big change in economic policy and very radical, coordinated action among all advanced and emerging market economies to avoid disaster.

Disaster beckoned.

Global Disaster Recovery

Then came the Nakba, the Calamity.

64 years of a catastrophe called Israel.

That, together with the counterfactual the economic calamity that would befall Germany following a collapse of the euro implies a unique obligation to maintain it.

But a disaster of Great Depression proportions was averted, thanks to unprecedented economic policy coordination by governments around the world.

On nearby streets, houses and businesses were destroyed.

The disaster has effectively paralysed the economy.

The scale of this tragedy has overwhelmed all the governments capacity.

Out of chaos is often born the dancing star.

The immediate impact of the disaster was felt by millions of people.

We gritted our teeth and for the sake of our national economies supported our governments as they bailed out the banks with public money. It was a necessary, if infuriating, act of salvation to avoid economic disaster.

The US cannot deny this disaster.

It is the scale of the catastrophe that astonishes me.

A calamity is inevitable unless we change.

But catastrophe was avoided.

The 6 January meeting convened in Jakarta at the initiative of the Indonesian Government was also important for coordinating international relief efforts and made possible an international plan for providing required assistance and for mitigating the consequences of the tragedy.

In the wake of economic disaster, the party held responsible would presumably be exiled from power for a generation (the Great Depression kept the Republicans from the US presidency for 20 years).

Given the nature and scale of the disaster, solidarity on the part of the international community is an absolute necessity if those countries that have been affected are to overcome the consequences of the catastrophe.

Doing so will not be easy. But disaster does not wait.

Nein merely brings calamity closer.

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous.

Where it goes, the next crisis is inevitably doomed to follow.

Such a declaration shall be made subsequent to the natural disaster and prior to the deployment of the operation.

The magnitude of the catastrophe requires a commensurate response from the global community.

That is the least that we can do when natural disasters occur.

It has been three long, nightmarish weeks for those who survived the waves yet lost so much and so many.

Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.

In the light of the devastating consequences of the natural disaster, on the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, our country began to send humanitarian assistance to the affected countries on the very next day following the catastrophe.

Not the bankers and financiers who created the disaster.

The last few days I have heard a lot of possible causes for this disaster arsonists seem to be the main and usual suspects.

Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

Let us respond to this catastrophe with the best of our humanity and a true sense of solidarity.

Europe, however, is not obliged to choose between catastrophe and mutualization of debt.