This initiative synthetizes lessons emerging from the entire research program and complements the program with additional studies. Research activities include literature reviews, desk research, meta-analyses of existing literature and original studies complementing research financed under the activities, shedding light on global questions, and improving programs.
Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has changed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011 and the peak of the European migration crisis in 2015. This paper reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced populations; discusses the main data and measurement challenges associated with this type of population; illustrates selected empirical findings that have emerged from the recent literature; and provides an overview of the substantial effort that humanitarian and development organizations are currently undertaking to close this historical gap in poverty measurement.
The paper highlights the new price monitoring capabilities using surveys from the World Food Programme (WFP) gathered in 25 fragile and conflict-affected countries. The capacity to monitor inflation continues to be severely limited by challenges related to data gathering that include such issues as lack of resources, loss of access to markets, or disturbances in ground operations during crises and conflict outbreaks.
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The paper illustrates the results of a series of simulations of the spread of COVID-19 disease in refugee camps using a demo set of data from the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. The purpose of this exercise is to illustrate the type of information that can assist the UNHCR and camps’ administrators in preparing for a COVID-19 outbreak. This paper is in a preprint stage, and has not been peer-reviewed.
This paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities, including impact on wages, employment, household well-being, labor markets among others.
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 surveys and administrative data.
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This paper provides a first non-technical introduction to the economics of forced displacement and argues that the modeling of utility, choice, risk, and information in a short-term setting is the key to address the problem.
This study uses existing data sources and complements them with new data to understand the socioeconomic characteristics of Afghan returnees, and the drivers of the decision to return.
As humanitarian organizations operate under increasing budget constraints and demands for efficiency, this paper shows that using Receiver Operating Characteristic can optimize targeted coverage, and increase overall efficiency of a program.
This paper proposes to model the drivers that impact the choice between living under conflict and the decision to flee.
This review aims to contribute toward a stronger conceptual and practical understanding of social cohesion in the context of forced displacement and includes reflection on the current portfolio of WBG forced displacement projects.
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