How corruption drowns the Philippines’ climate response
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines has spent trillions on flood-control projects, yet every typhoon season, the same scenes unfold: submerged barangays, families stranded on rooftops, classrooms turned into evacuation centers. Data from the International Disaster Database reveal a grim constant: from 2000 to 2024, storms (201) and floods (109) accounted for nearly two-thirds of all recorded disasters
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