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The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access (Brief)
Michael Clemens et al.
October 09, 2018
Refugees can be immense economic contributors to the host communities where they settle, but to maximize their contributions, refugees need formal labor market access.
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Are Refugees Located Near Urban Job Opportunities?
Cindy Huang
and
Jimmy Graham
June 18, 2018
To help demonstrate where MNCs, regional and local businesses, and other actors are best positioned to expand economic opportunities for refugees, we created an interactive tool to map the locations of refugees, and analyzed the extent to which refugees overlap with major urban areas in 31 of the 37...
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Note to G7: Now Is the Time to Support Rohingyas and Their Hosts
Cindy Huang
June 08, 2018
Bangladesh is hosting nearly one million Rohingya refugees—mostly crowded into in one of the country’s less-developed areas, Cox’s Bazar. A minority population in Myanmar, stripped of citizenship in the 1980s, the Rohingya have been denied access to education, meaningful livelihood...
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Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy Program Launch: Here’s What You Missed
Cindy Huang
and
Michael Clemens
June 07, 2018
Migration and displacement are among the greatest policy challenges of this century. Governance of the humanitarian system is at a crossroads, and key innovations shaking up traditional ways of working provide a window of opportunity for a broader, pragmatic reform effort. CGD has launched a ne...
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Flexible and Innovative Financing for Refugee Crises and Other 21st Century Challenges
Cindy Huang
and
Kate Gough
April 26, 2018
Last week, CGD co-hosted an event with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) with a simple premise that contradicts much conventional wisdom: refugees are not a burden, but a development asset. That premise compels the question: what policies, financing, and partnerships are needed...
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A Bangladesh Compact: Beyond Aid Solutions for Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities
Cindy Huang
April 17, 2018
Bangladesh is providing an immense global public good, hosting more than 688,000 Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar since August 2017.
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Tackling the Realities of Protracted Displacement: Case Studies on What’s Working and Where We Can Do Better
Cindy Huang et al.
April 17, 2018
The international community has come together in new ways to address forced displacement—one of the biggest challenges of the early twenty-first century.