This year's hurricane season hit my country very hard.

It was the hardest hit of any country in the world.

Those who doubt that this could happen again should consider the European country hardest hit in the current crisis Greece. After the colonels junta there fell in 1974, a democratic system sprang up.

The global economic crisis not only hit the country hard, but, because of irresponsible electioneering, the previous government did not even try to fight it. Reckless populist promises left a gaping 16 of GDP budget deficit.

Then there'll be secondary outbreaks, and the disease will spread from country to country so fast that you won't know what hit you.

The size of France s political crisis seems to be out of proportion with the country s real situation. To be sure, France has been severely hit by the global financial crisis and economic downturn.

The Asian financial crisis illustrated how easily a crisis can spread from country to country as economies and markets become more integrated by trade and investment links.

Even as I speak, my own country, Guyana, a low lying coastal State, is experiencing the worst floods to have hit our country in over 100 years.

Consider Italy, which has the highest ratio of private wealth to public debt of any G 7 country, and is some 30 to 40 higher than in Germany. Likewise, Italy and France share a private wealth GDP ratio of five to one, while Spain s at least before the crisis hit the country in full was six to one.

But in Haiti we have a country in crisis, a country that was virtually threatened with civil war.

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

There already exist three Government run women crisis centers in the country.

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Expressing grave concern about the appalling proportions of the humanitarian crisis affecting the country,

And so I thought, how could we address the energy crisis in this country?

If people in poorer countries can be hit by a crisis that starts in New York or starts in the sub prime market of the United States of America.

Iceland, which was hit by a financial crisis in 2008, provides the counterfactual. Whereas Greece remains mired in depression, Iceland which is not in the eurozone has essentially recovered.

Since the very beginning of the Haitian crisis, my country has expressed its solidarity with the people and the authorities of that country.

Cyprus, of course, is just the latest country to be hit by the economic crisis surging through the Mediterranean. For years, Cyprus had an immense banking bubble, with the sector s assets estimated at roughly seven times the country s GDP, as foreign money poured into a tax haven within the eurozone s secure environment.

In the first wave of post crisis elections, the message was clear in one sense, and clouded in another. Whichever government was in power when the crisis hit, whether left or right, was booted out and replaced by a government of the opposite political persuasion.

Hit me.

Hit me.

The November 2004 crisis also had a significant impact on the economic situation within the country.

Fixing the financial sector was necessary for economic recovery, but far from sufficient. To understand what needs to be done, we have to understand the economy s problems before the crisis hit.

The short answer is exports. In all of the other crisis hit countries (and, indeed, in most of the dozens of countries that have received IMF loans in recent decades), rising exports offset, at least partly, the hit that demand took when their governments slashed spending and raised taxes to balance their books.

Moreover, not all protest parties reject the EU. In Europe s crisis affected countries, young people, who have been hardest hit, voted en masse for leftist anti austerity parties, most notably in Greece.

Deep and widespread misery and an acute environmental crisis put the country socially and ecologically at risk.

Why hit him?

She hit him.

Of course, when the crisis hit, financial institutions were the first to argue that autonomy was unrealistic, and that we are all interdependent. After all, why else should taxpayers agree to rescue them?

Indeed, low US interest rates, though an appropriate domestic response to the financial crisis, have pushed a global carry trade in which people borrow in dollars to fund investments in the apparently less crisis hit large emerging market economies. These large transactions are funneled through the international banking system.

On the economic front, the country is emerging from a lengthy crisis, during which its economy was stagnant.

Don't get hit again,

Tom hit a triple.

Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.

Did somebody hit Tom?

This decision aggravated the social and political tensions in the country, and the crisis spread to the main institutions.

You hit the solid rock.

You hit the viability threshold.

Asia s BRICs Hit the Wall

She hit the ball hard.

Don't let him hit you.

We know that the structure of the eurozone encourages divergence, not convergence as capital and talented people leave crisis hit economies, these countries become less able to repay their debts. As markets grasp that a vicious downward spiral is structurally embedded in the euro, the consequences for the next crisis become profound.

Chinese officials faced the risk of a dangerous interplay of political and economic instability. Hit by a second external demand shock in three years first, America s subprime crisis, and now Europe s sovereign debt crisis any outbreak of internal political instability would pose a far greater threat than might otherwise be the case.

And I'm not here to say that men are to blame for the crisis and what happened in my country.