AFP: Asia’s poor will bear the brunt of disasters sparked by climate change and rapid urbanisation, a World Bank expert told a regional conference Tuesday. “More than others, poor people pay for disaster with their lives,” the bank’s director for sustainable development in East Asia, John Roome, told the Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction. Last year, he said in a speech, six of the 10 countries with the highest death rates and GDP losses from natural disasters …