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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why does Haiti get hit so much harder by natural disasters than the Dominican Republic?
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All else being equal, a poorer country will suffer more from natural disasters than a rich country will. Building structures to withstand things like earthquakes and hurricanes costs money. Enforcing building codes takes money. Having redundancy in infrastructure so that some will survive a disaster- you get the picture. Rebuilding after a disaster also costs money. A country that has more money is going to deal with all of this better than one that doesn’t.