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DateDecember 15, 2010

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Poor prospects

Because of a lack of investment in infrastructure, the developing world is already vulnerable to effects that climate change is expected to make worse, Mark Montgomery told his audience at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies. The professor of economics from Stony Brook University used last summer’s flooding in Pakistan, which left millions of people homeless and destroyed bridges, homes, schools, and hospitals, as an example.

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Poor prospects

Because of a lack of investment in infrastructure, the developing world is already vulnerable to effects that climate change is expected to make worse, Mark Montgomery told his audience at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies. The professor of economics from Stony Brook University used last summer’s flooding in Pakistan, which left millions of people homeless and destroyed bridges, homes, schools, and hospitals, as an example.

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer