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Dany Bahar Meagan Dooley Cindy Huang Introducción Antes de dejar el cargo en agosto de 2018, el Presidente Colombiano saliente Juan Manuel Santos decretó que 442,462 venezolanos indocumentados que...
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Dany Bahar Meagan Dooley Cindy Huang Introduction Before leaving office in August 2018, outgoing Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos decreed that 442,462 undocumented Venezuelans living in...
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Dany Bahar y Meagan Dooley Lunes, 9 de diciembre, 2019 La crisis de refugiados venezolanos está a punto de superar la escala de la crisis siria. Para finales del 2019, 4 años después del comienzo de...
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Dany Bahar and Meagan DooleyMonday, December 9, 2019 The Venezuelan refugee crisis is just about to surpass the scale of the Syrian crisis. As 2019 comes to a close, four years since the start of the...
Christina Kwauk, Jessica Cooke, Elisa Hara, Joni Pegram Overview Climate change is the most significant intergenerational equity issue of our time. Children and future generations are bearing, and...
Editor's Note: The following is one of eight briefs commissioned for the 16th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable, “2020 and beyond: Maintaining the bipartisan narrative on US global development.” On...
Elizabeth Ferris Tuesday, June 19, 2018 When most people think of today’s global refugee crisis, they probably imagine masses of people trying to cross into a neighboring country or hundreds of tents...
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Overview Girls’ education and climate change are currently two of the most topical global issues in the development arena. Due to a myriad of limiting factors, more girls around the world are falling...
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In a simulation presented by Doctors Without Borders, participants had to choose the few items they would take with them if forced to flee. They faced a wall of plastic cards with pictures on them:...
Darrell M. West 6 October 2016 More For media inquries, contact: Governance Studies Main Line 202.797.6090 Around the world, digital technology is seen as vital for economic development. In the U.S...
Abstract Fragile states around the world are at risk of being left behind, making them a high priority for increased foreign assistance. But is the donor community capable of delivering that aid...
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By: Elizabeth Ferris and Kemal Kirişci Half of Syria’s population is now either an internally displaced person (IDP) or a refugee. The international community is still struggling to respond to this...
Africa is at a tipping point in 2016. Despite all the success the continent has achieved in recent years, new and old dangers—economic, political, and security-related—threaten to derail its...
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Omer Karasapan | December 7, 2015 9:18am Given the all-consuming focus in Europe and beyond on the refugee issue, one would have expected the COP21 meetings and its media coverage to focus more on...
Amadou Sy | October 22, 2015 Just a few days ago, on October 18, the Central African Republic (CAR) was scheduled to hold its first true elections since the outbreak of the most recent crisis in 2012...
Why Guidance on Planned Relocation? Disasters displaced an average of 27 million people per year between 2008 and 2013 – a number which will likely increase as a result of two factors. First, climate...
Massimiliano Calì Senior Economist, World Bank Samia Sekkarie Consultant, World Bank To those European Union citizens who think that the ongoing “refugee invasion” into the EU is quickly becoming...
Summary Over the past few years, higher education has been a frequent casualty of the violent conflicts sweeping the Middle East. Campuses have been bombed in Syria, Gaza and now Yemen; occupied or...
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The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre recently released their annual Global Estimates of People Displaced by Disasters, which reports that almost 20 million people were newly displaced by...
By: Daniel Petz Should persons be allowed to return to their homes after a natural disaster, when it is clear those places will be destroyed again in the next disaster? Should persons be moved...