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Summary

On April 25, 2015, an earthquake measuring 7·8 on the Richter scale shook Nepal. This (together with strong aftershocks) resulted in about 9000 deaths, more than 23 000 injured, and about 2 million displaced people. To fi nd the way forward for Nepal it might be useful to examine aspects of the 2010 earthquake and its aftermath in Haiti—a similarly impoverished country. That earthquake killed at least 230 000 people and displaced about 1·5 million. Reconstruction has been a very slow process in Haiti.