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...

Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Overview -- Background and motivation -- Structure of the report and questions asked -- A profile of refugees -- Welfare and poverty -- Vulnerability -- Policies -- A comparative analysis across countries and data sets -- Appendix -- Conclusions -- References

The Syrian crisis has led to rapid and large-scale population displacement. This paper uses several sources of data, including the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees' registration database and multi-country, multi-topic surveys collected in 2015-16, to characterize service delivery...