In settings where women’s land rights are informal, the death of a husband can severely limit a widow’s access to land and her ability to remain in her home — especially in the absence of a male heir...
From July to October of 2021, the World Bank funded the production of three TV and radio jingles, as well as airtime to broadcast them over the Summer, across all regions of Mali. The jingles address some...
The study identifies the important role of parents in the life plans particularly of young females. In nearly all cases, parents dominate the decision-making processes of daughters more than of sons. Here...
The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted people around the world in an unprecedented manner, especially vulnerable populations such as displaced people. To monitor the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Smaller businesses, including those led by women, are a vital part of economies across the Middle East and North Africa. But women entrepreneurs are still vastly underserved by the financial sector. The...
Understanding how different households cope with COVID-19 among a vulnerable population is important for the policy design aiming at relieving hunger and poverty in a low income setting. This paper uses...
This paper presents descriptive statistics from the first wave of the Syrian Refugee Life Study (S-RLS), which was launched in 2020. S-RLS is a longitudinal study that tracks a representative sample of...
This paper studies the effect of a change in the amount of cash assistance provided to Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan on household outcomes post-return. Using a regression discontinuity design...
This note examines the trends and drivers of poverty and inequality reduction during the past two years, presents a profile of the poor and middle class, and provides an ex-ante analysis of the poverty...
Little is known about how gender inequality influences poverty rates of forcibly displaced people. This paper uses a nationally representative survey to analyze poverty among internally displaced people...
Despite the many simultaneous deprivations faced by forcibly displaced communities, such as food insecurity, inadequate housing, or lack of access to education, there is little research on the level and...