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  World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies

  2023

  Mobility is an integral part of the development process. It is a mechanism for reallocating labor across economic sectors and geographical areas. It enables adaptation to shocks, stresses, and imbalances. Cross-border mobility inevitably comes with economic and social consequences for those who move, their communities of origin, and their destinations. The World Development Report (WDR) is taking a fresh look at these issues. It aims to shift from a narrow focus on labor markets for migrants and legal protection for refugees to a more holistic perspective — one that recognizes the humanity of migrants and the complexity of the societies of origin and destination.

  Concept Note |  WDR 2023 Learning Events
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  New Mediums, Better Messages? How Innovations in Translation, Engagement and Advocacy are Changing International Development

  June 2022

  As international development has become more quantitative and economics-centred, there is an enduring sense that what is measured (and thus 'valued' and prioritized) may have become too narrow. This book explores popular representations of international development and opens a unique conversation between development and the arts. It brings together a team of multidisciplinary contributors to explore popular representions of development, including music, blogs, and fiction.
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  Improving Effective Coverage in Health: Do Financial Incentives Work?

  May 2022

  In many low- and middle-income countries, health coverage has improved dramatically in the past two decades, but health outcomes have not. In this talk, report lead authors Damien de Walque and Eeshani Kandpal review evidence on the impacts of PBF on health service delivery spanning fifteen years and nearly forty countries with a particular emphasis on the quality of service delivery.

  Report |  Video |  Presentation
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  Out of the Shadows: The Impact of Amnesties on the Lives of Migrants

  February 2022

  In this Policy Research Talk, Sandra Rozo discusses her joint work with Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya on the causal effects of a regularization program offered by the Colombian government to nearly half a million Venezuelan refugees in 2018. Their analysis centers on understanding the effects of regularization on refugees’ well-being broadly defined, including income, consumption, mental and physical health, and access to employment.

  Feature Story |  Presentation |  Video
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  COVID-19: Costs, Consequences, and Urgent Choices

  Research Newsletter, July 2021

  This COVID-19 newsletter focuses on the costs, consequences, and urgent choices as COVID-19 continues to devastate lives and livelihoods. It includes research on the costs of the pandemic, the efficacy of government responses, and the promise of vaccines to slow and eventually halt the pandemic.
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  Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune

  October 2020

  The report presents new estimates of COVID-19’s impacts on global poverty and inequality. Harnessing fresh data from frontline surveys and economic simulations, it shows that pandemic-related job losses and deprivation worldwide are hitting already-poor and vulnerable people hard, while also partly changing the profile of global poverty by creating millions of “new poor.” Furthermore, the report breaks ground by jointly analyzing three factors whose convergence is driving the current crisis and will extend its impact into the future: the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict, and climate change.

  Report |  Feature Story
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  Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict

  June 2020

  This Policy Research Report documents how permeable country borders have become in many different domains, and the troubling human and economic costs as the geographical spillovers of conflict and crime and political instability have intensified. The report suggests international institutions can play a critical role in stabilizing domestic fragility by moving settlement of disputes away from battlefields and toward global platforms.

  Policy Research Report |  Video |  Blog