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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.
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Redesigning the IDA Private Sector Window for Impact: Some Principles and Potential Practices
Charles Kenny
November 05, 2018
I have previously suggested that the current design of the $2.5 billion World Bank/IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) seemed an inefficient use of scarce aid resources, didn’t follow the World Bank’s own guidance on disclosure and design of subsidies to the private secto...
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Fishermen, SCOTUS, and the IFC: Litigating Development
Vijaya Ramachandran
November 05, 2018
Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jam et al v. International Finance Corporation. At stake: the extent to which international organizations including the IFC enjoy immunity from prosecution in US courts.