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The paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of … contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 17 major forced displacement crises that occurred between 1922 and 2015, to host …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...
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Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...
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are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public … Distribution System, a universal food subsidy program, has buffered the impacts of displacement on households. Using propensity … helped mitigate displacement to a degree, it may not be the most effective protection program for such shocks. Given the …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis exploits geographical, time, and cohort variations using...
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outcomes that may be directly affected by the related policy will be biased due to urban displacement …
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Despite the growing numbers of forcibly displaced persons worldwide, many people living under conflict choose not to flee. Individuals face two lotteries-staying or leaving-characterized by two distributions of potential outcomes. This paper proposes to model the choice between these two...
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This report aims to extract lessons on slum upgrading and involuntary resettlement policies and practices learned from the process of addressing the Badia East case, which involved complex interactions between affected people, NGOs, the Bank and Lagos State Government. In doing so, this report...
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Implementation Analysis, which includes an assessment of Afghanistan's legal and policy framework on forced displacement.3 … Afghanistan's Forced Displacement Legal and Policy Framework Assessment was prepared during the period of January to May 2017 as … registration and data collection system on forced displacement; facilitated access to documentation and simplified procedure for …
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This policy note aims to advance our understanding of urban forced displacement, induced by conflict, by looking at the … forced displacement; how to "think differently" about urban forced displacement along the humanitarian-development assistance … with the urban dimensions of protracted forced displacement …
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