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As a region, the Mashreq has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade. The region has braved massive economic and social shocks that would challenge even the most advanced economies in the world. The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has...
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The World Bank's teams have been resorting to the use of a mix of standard tools and innovative geospatial and remote-based data sources (e.g., nighttime lights, shipping-position data, traffic congestion data, aviation statistics, mobile phone location data, remote sensing vegetation indices,...
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economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration in Rwanda, which is a recent … three years between 2011 and 2014. Rural-to-urban migration has increased slightly as a share of internal migration, and … with internal migration increasing overall, the absolute number of people moving from rural to urban areas has grown. The …
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), returnees, refugees and their host communities. One of the main activities under this joint initiative is Policy and …, including asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons. Furthermore, this assessment recommends reforms in the existing legal …
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This policy note aims to advance our understanding of urban forced displacement, induced by conflict, by looking at the issue from the perspective of receiving towns and cities. It explores why we need a different approach to addressing urban forced displacement; how to "think differently" about...
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Southern Africa has a long history of human mobility centered around the migration of labor to farms and mines in the … region. Patterns of migration and displacement have since been transformed by the end of Apartheid, changing economic systems … contradictory legal frameworks. These complex patterns of migration and displacement, state responses to them, and the implications …
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The conflict inflicted by ISIS has forced over 5 million ordinary Iraqis to flee their homes, left schools destroyed and hospitals dysfunctional. Seven governorates have been fiercely affected while the entire country felt the shockwaves. During these times of despair, our neighbors and the...
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The Iraq Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the previous six months and presents findings from recent World Bank work on Iraq, placing them in a longer-term and global context and assessing the implications of these developments and other changes...
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Iraq's overall security situation has notably improved after the defeat of ISIS, but significant challenges lie ahead. Iraq has witnessed major political and security transitions in 2017 when Prime Minister Al-Abadi announced in December the victory over ISIS after a war that lasted three years....
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