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Publications - Refugee Economies

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Publications

The Refugee Economies Programme has published a range of reports, books, and briefing papers on the economic lives of refugees and their impact on host societies in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.

The Refugee Economies Programme has also published a range of online articles and blog pieces. Links to these can be found here.

Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan Cover Image
  • 2024

Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan

The Economic Lives of Refugees Cover Image
  • 2024

The Economic Lives of Refugees

Refugee Debt and Livelihoods in Northern Kenya Cover Image
  • 2024
  • Kenya

Refugee Debt and Livelihoods in Northern Kenya

Skilled Worker Visas for Refugees: An Evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot (DTMP) Cover Image
  • 2024

Skilled Worker Visas for Refugees: An Evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot (DTMP)

Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya Cover Image
  • 2023

Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya

Research in Brief: Refugee entrepreneurship in Rwanda Cover Image
  • 2023
  • Publication

Research in Brief: Refugee entrepreneurship in Rwanda

Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey Cover Image
  • 2023

Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey

Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements Cover Image
  • 2023

Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements

The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions Cover Image
  • 2022

The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions

The Refugee-Led Research Hub Annual Report 2021-2022 Cover Image
  • 2022

The Refugee-Led Research Hub Annual Report 2021-2022

Refugee Economies Programme: Activities and Impact 2016-2021 Cover Image
  • 2021
  • Ethiopia
  • Kenya
  • Uganda

Refugee Economies Programme: Activities and Impact 2016-2021

The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies  Cover Image
  • 2020

The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies 

Building Refugee Economies: An evaluation of the IKEA Foundation’s programmes in Dollo Ado Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Ethiopia

Building Refugee Economies: An evaluation of the IKEA Foundation’s programmes in Dollo Ado

The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance Cover Image
  • 2020

The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance

Refugee Economies - Forced Displacement and Development Cover Image
  • 2018
  • Uganda

Refugee Economies - Forced Displacement and Development

Cash Transfer Models and Debt in the Kalobeyei Settlement Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Kenya

Cash Transfer Models and Debt in the Kalobeyei Settlement

Doing Business in Kakuma: Refugees, Entrepreneurship, and the Food Market Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Kenya

Doing Business in Kakuma: Refugees, Entrepreneurship, and the Food Market

The Kalobeyei Model: Towards Self-Reliance for Refugees? Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Kenya

The Kalobeyei Model: Towards Self-Reliance for Refugees?

Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-Economic Outcomes for Refugees in North-West Kenya Cover Image
  • 2018
  • Kenya

Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-Economic Outcomes for Refugees in North-West Kenya

Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado: Development Opportunities in a Border Region of Ethiopia Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Ethiopia

Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado: Development Opportunities in a Border Region of Ethiopia

Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado: Development Opportunities in a Border Region of Ethiopia (Somali-Language Version) Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Ethiopia

Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado: Development Opportunities in a Border Region of Ethiopia (Somali-Language Version)

Refugee Economies in Addis Ababa: Towards Sustainable Opportunities for Urban Communities? Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Ethiopia

Refugee Economies in Addis Ababa: Towards Sustainable Opportunities for Urban Communities?

Refugee Economies in Uganda: What Difference Does the Self-Reliance Model Make? Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Uganda

Refugee Economies in Uganda: What Difference Does the Self-Reliance Model Make?

Research in Brief: The IKEA Foundation and Livelihoods in Dollo Ado: Lessons from the Cooperatives Model Cover Image
  • 2020

Research in Brief: The IKEA Foundation and Livelihoods in Dollo Ado: Lessons from the Cooperatives Model

Research in Brief: Building Economies in Refugee-Hosting Regions: Lessons from Dollo Ado Cover Image
  • 2020

Research in Brief: Building Economies in Refugee-Hosting Regions: Lessons from Dollo Ado

Research in Brief: Cash Transfer Models and Debt in the Kalobeyei Settlement Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Kenya

Research in Brief: Cash Transfer Models and Debt in the Kalobeyei Settlement

Research in Brief: Uganda’s Self-Reliance Model: Does it Work? Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Uganda

Research in Brief: Uganda’s Self-Reliance Model: Does it Work?

Research in Brief: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance Cover Image
  • 2019
  • Kenya
  • Uganda

Research in Brief: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance

Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Cover Image
  • 2021

Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies Cover Image
  • 2021
  • Uganda

Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies

The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance Cover Image
  • 2020

The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance

Self-reliance and Social Networks: Explaining Refugees’ Reluctance to Relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Kenya

Self-reliance and Social Networks: Explaining Refugees’ Reluctance to Relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation Cover Image
  • 2022

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-reliance Model for Refugees? Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Kenya

The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-reliance Model for Refugees?

Empowering Refugees through Cash and Agriculture: A Regression Discontinuity Design Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Kenya

Empowering Refugees through Cash and Agriculture: A Regression Discontinuity Design

Refugee Economies in Kenya Cover Image
  • 2018
  • Kenya

Refugee Economies in Kenya

Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions Cover Image
  • 2018
  • Uganda

Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions

Local Politics and the Syrian Refugee Crisis Cover Image
  • 2018
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Turkey

Local Politics and the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System Cover Image
  • 2018

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Refugee Innovation: Humanitarian Innovation that Starts with Communities. Cover Image
  • 2015

Refugee Innovation: Humanitarian Innovation that Starts with Communities.

Talent displaced: The economic lives of Syrian refugees in Europe Cover Image
  • 2018

Talent displaced: The economic lives of Syrian refugees in Europe

Transnational blindness: International institutions and refugees’ cross-border activities Cover Image
  • 2021
  • Ethiopia

Transnational blindness: International institutions and refugees’ cross-border activities

What difference do mayors make? The role of municipal authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s response to Syrian refugees Cover Image
  • 2020
  • Lebanon
  • Turkey

What difference do mayors make? The role of municipal authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s response to Syrian refugees

Help Refugees Help Themselves: Let Displaced Syrians Join the Labor Market Cover Image
  • 2015
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon

Help Refugees Help Themselves: Let Displaced Syrians Join the Labor Market

Humanitarian Innovation: The State of the Art Cover Image
  • 2014

Humanitarian Innovation: The State of the Art