This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …

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 Refugees survey and administrative data. The proposed method offers …

collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze … income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …