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CGD NOTES
Using Trade Preferences to Support Refugees and their Hosts
December 20, 2019
External financial assistance is, and will remain, essential. But both donors and host countries need to do more to facilitate the transition from humanitarian relief to longer-term development assistance and trade measures could help.
Multimedia
New Ways to Support Refugees and Hosts
December 13, 2019
More than 25 million people around the world are refugees. Three quarters have been refugees for more than five years. We therefore need to move beyond short-term humanitarian assistance to medium- and long-term solutions. Learn more at /LetThemWork
BRIEFS
Designing a Medium-Term Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Ideas for Bangladesh, the International Community, and the Private Sector (Brief)
December 13, 2019
The time to act is now. There is a finite window of opportunity to embed medium-term approaches before international attention wanes further and donor fatigue results in even greater funding shortfalls. 
BRIEFS
How Business Can Invest in the Future of the Rohingya and Host Community in Bangladesh
December 06, 2019
Bangladesh is hosting more than a million Rohingya refugees, and businesses have a critical role to play in improving the situation for them and their Bangladeshi host communities. We have identified four viable areas for business investment and procurement in Cox’s Bazar, the historically und...
REPORTS
Designing a Medium-Term Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Ideas for Bangladesh, the International Community, and the Private Sector
December 05, 2019
While Bangladesh and Myanmar have recently attempted small-scale repatriation, these efforts have failed as refugees refused to go back, fearing for their safety. Conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine State continue to deteriorate, and UN agencies have been denied full access to areas of return. Des...
Blog Post
A New Policy to Better Integrate Refugees into Host-Country Labor Markets
November 22, 2019
Many actual or potential host countries for refugees face serious challenges in integrating the refugees into the domestic labor markets. A primary concern is resistance from citizens in the host countries. Integrating refugees into host-country labor markets will continue to prove difficult if citi...
Blog Post
Who Needs Financing More Than Businesses? Refugees
October 15, 2019
Finance exists to solve certain basic problems. The world’s displaced confront more of them than anyone.