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1.4 Million Refugees Need Resettlement: Can Innovative Finance Help?

August 19, 2020
Today, 1.4 million refugees urgently await resettlement. Unlike the rest of the world’s 26 million refugees, they have been designated by the United Nations (UN) as having vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed in their host countries. They are therefore waiting to be moved from the country hostin...
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Using Innovative Finance to Increase Refugee Resettlement

August 19, 2020
Today, 1.4 million refugees urgently await resettle­ment. Unlike the rest of the world’s 26 million refu­gees, they have been designated by the United Nations (UN) as having vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed in their host countries. They are therefore waiting to be moved from the country host...
POLICY PAPER

Locked Down and Left Behind: The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees’ Economic Inclusion

July 08, 2020
Refugees living in low- and middle-income countries are especially vulnerable to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on data from eight hosting countries before COVID-19, we find that refugees are 60 percent more likely than host populations to be working in highly impacted sectors,...