Quake's economic cost 'five times worse than Katrina'
GDP impact worse, says economist.
Niko Kloeten Mon, 28 Feb 2011
Last week’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch will cause much more damage to the New Zealand economy than Hurricane Katrina did to the US, an economist says.
Analysis by First NZ Capital researcher Chris Green suggests that the total cost of the earthquake on a relative GDP basis may
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