The earthquake that flogged Haiti destroyed big part of his GDP

To almost two months of happened the earthquake that it flogged to the territory of Haiti, there keeps on coming news about this part of the world. According to official announcements, the earthquake of last January 12 destroyed big part of the Gross national product (known also like GNP) of the Caribbean nation.

Since it is already of public knowledge, a terrible earthquake flogged last Tuesday, the 12th of January the cardinal city of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. The above mentioned earthquake left numerous ravages in the buildings of this country and caused thousands and thousands of human victims, as one has already reported across this finance blog.

To reconstruct this country, not only it is needed between 8.000 million dollars and 14.000 million dollars, as they informed from the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID), but it will be necessary to wait a good weather (at least ten years) so that the capital of Haiti stays in the same conditions in the one that was before the earthquake.

In the last hours, it was known that the earthquake that almost two months ago it affected to the Caribbean country, causing thousands of deaths and leaving million Haitians in the street, destroyed between 35 % and 50 % of the GNP of Haiti, he reported the web site Univision.com.

The above mentioned declarations were realized by the proper president of Haiti, René Préval, in the frame of the visit that the chief of Brazil, José Inácio Lula Da Silva, realized some days ago to the Caribbean country, and in which agreements were signed to help the Haitian people.

Before finishing, it would be good to tell what the GNP of a country is. As he informs the web site Wikipedia, in his version in Spanish, the Gross national product (GNP), also known as GDP (Gross Internal Product), is the entire monetary value of the current production of goods and services of a country during a period of time.

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