It is also 10 percent of your population without food and facing starvation -- that is going to challenge any economy.

It is nonsense to say that these areas do not contribute to the economy.

There are 30,000 families whose land has been lost to the sea. And with the best will in the world donors cannot build homes for people who have no land.

The international community tried to go straight to permanent shelter because that's what local people said they wanted and this was a rare occasion when we had the money to do it.

You have to be more realistic about the need for temporary shelter because of the difficulty of building permanent homes and that should be part of the reconstruction plan, even if [affected] people are resistant.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population.