Refugees

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Making GCFF Financing a Win for Venezuelans and Their Colombian Hosts
Cindy Huang
January 28, 2019
As dueling claims to the Venezuela’s presidency threaten to spark further violence and devastating economic and social turmoil accelerates, the exodus of Venezuelan migrants continues. In a context of increasing pressure and the possibility of larger inflows, the World Bank recently annou...
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Joint Humanitarian Operations: How to Bring US Humanitarian Assistance into the 21st Century
Jeremy Konyndyk
December 12, 2018
The US has long sought enhanced coherence, quality, and efficiency from its UN and NGO partners; it is time that the US government place these same demands upon itself. As the US Government grapples with how best to reconfigure its humanitarian engagement, it should adopt a Goldwater-Nicho...
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IDA Funding for Refugees and Hosts: 5 Ways to Improve and Why We Need More
Sarah Charles et al.
November 06, 2018
On average, a refugee is displaced for 10 years, and after being displaced for five years, the average jumps to more than 20 years. The world could no longer ignore this reality in 2015, when more than one million asylum seekers and migrants arrived to Europe seeking refuge and opportunity. The...
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Five Ways to Improve the World Bank Funding for Refugees and Hosts in Low-Income Countries and Why These Dedicated Resources Matter More than Ever
Sarah Charles et al.
November 05, 2018
For too long, the international community has accepted the convenient fiction that refugee crises are temporary.