Publications and reports
Labor Market Access and Outcomes for Refugees
Labor Market Access and Outcomes for RefugeesRefugees’ right to work is protected by international law but often violated in practice. This Digest discusses the barriers that host governments impose on refugees’ labor market access and reviews the academic research on...
The impact of forced displacement on housing and urban settlement in host communities
Findings in the literature suggest that the sudden and often massive nature of refugee inflows, combined with the fact that housing supply is mostly unresponsive in the short-term, has the potential to affect housing prices and generate substantial changes in housing preferences.
Refugees in Chad
As of May 2022, Chad—itself one of the poorest countries in the world—was hosting nearly six hundred thousand refugees. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the vulnerability of Chadians and the refugee population.
Cox’s Bazar : Inclusive Growth Diagnostic
The district of Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, is an instructive context to understand how long-standing and newer growth opportunities and constraints manifest at the local level, remote from Bangladesh’s major growth poles of Dhaka and Chittagong.
Burkina Faso – COVID-19 Impact Monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons | Bulletin No. 3
This brief presents the results from the third (and final) round of High Frequency Phone Surveys on Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Burkina Faso, conducted between June 28 and July 20, 2021.
JDC Support to Integrating forcibly displaced populations into COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys
In coordination with the COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey work by the World Bank and its partners, the Joint Data Center is supporting the expansion of those efforts to include data collection on forcibly displaced populations in several countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Jordan.
Food Security Crisis in Yemen 2020- September 2021
Yemen experienced sharp increases in food insecurity during 2020, and many Yemenis risk falling into famine.
Refugee Emergencies and Attitudes Towards Refugees: Some Insights from the Academic Literature
The conflict in Ukraine has generated a large inflow of refugees into European countries, with more than five million people having fled to neighboring countries. So far, the public response has been generally positive, with large shares of the European population being in favor of the policies implemented to host and support the Ukrainian refugees.
COVID-19 Impact Monitoring on Refugee Households in Chad | Brief No. 2
This brief presents the results of the fourth round of the nationally representative High Frequency Phone Survey (HFPS) of Chadian households and the results of the second round of the HFPS for refugee households.
Burkina Faso – COVID-19 Impact Monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons | Bulletin No. 2
This brief presents the results from the second round of the Covid-19 High Frequency Phone Survey on Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Burkina Faso, that was conducted between May 25 and June 17, 2021.
