To date, research and analysis of the gendered dimensions of forced displacement have been limited. This Quarterly Digest highlights findings from a new, major World Bank Research Program which has so...

This literature review delves into recent research on internal displacement featuring topics such right to work and labour market, education, cash transfer, environmental impacts and extreme weather c...

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The book explains how labor market restrictions rarely prevent refugees entirely from working but shape the type and quality of work they do, their contribution to the economy, and the effects of thei...

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 sheds light on one of the most intractable challenges faced by development policy makers and practitioners: transforming the economic lives of the world’s p...

Initiated jointly by the UNHCR and the World Bank, the Kakuma Socioeconomic Survey provides new data on the socioeconomic lives of refugees in Kakuma, North West Kenya, that is comparable with that of...

Sub-Saharan Africa hosts a large proportion of the world’s refugees, raising concerns about the consequences of hosting refugees. This paper focuses on Uganda, which is the largest refugee hosting cou...

Policy Reasearch Working Paper 10631 - This paper aims to understand the existing gaps in microlevel data on forcibly displaced people—refugees and internally displaced persons- through a comprehensiv...

The return of refugees to their home countries is often regarded as a desirable outcome in displacement contexts, enabling individuals to rebuild their lives in familiar environments. Nevertheless, re...

Understanding the Socioeconomic Conditions of Refugees in Kalobeyei, Kenya Results from the 2018 Kalobeyei Socioeconomic Profiling Survey - Summary