CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers

Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by throwaway049 on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:08AM (#11503634)

From the UN website it looks like poorer countries stand to make a (small) profit on deployment:

>Peacekeeping soldiers are paid by their own Governments according to their own national rank and salary scale. Countries volunteering uniformed personnel to peacekeeping operations are reimbursed by the UN at a standard rate, approved by the General Assembly, of a little over US$1,332 per soldier per month. http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/financing.shtml

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Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by mseebach on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:00AM (#11503896)

Obviously, salaries aren't the full cost of a military, especially not on deployment, but US$1332 is ~140k Nepalese rupees, which is 4x the national average salary.

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=151&loct...

I would suspect this is fairly lucrative.

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