Identifying Poor Refugees for Targeting of Food and Multi-Sectoral Cash Transfers in Niger

Beltramo, Theresa; Weisner, Christina; Gigliariano, Chiara; Heyn, Robert

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“…Predicted poverty rates for different sample sizes refugees; one such recent application was for the Malian refugees in Niger(Beltramo et al 2019). …”

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Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation

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Verme

2022

J Popul Econ

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The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has brought more attention to measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly regarding income or consumption. We offer a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross-survey imputation and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Employing a small number of predictors currently available in the UNHCR registration system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates that are not statistically different from actual poverty rates. These estimates are robust to different poverty lines, perform well according to targeting indicators, and are more accurate than those based on asset indexes or proxy means tests. They can also be obtained with relatively small samples. We additionally show that it is feasible to provide poverty estimates for one geographical region based on existing data from another similar region.

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“…Predicted poverty rates for different sample sizes refugees; one such recent application was for the Malian refugees in Niger(Beltramo et al 2019). …”

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Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation

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2022

J Popul Econ

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“…Humanitarian organisations, such as the WFP and the UNHCR, rely entirely on donors' contributions to administer programmes for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) (Verme & Gigliarano, 2019). While UNHCR's budget financing reached historic highs in 2016, humanitarian needs continue to grow at an even faster pace, with multidimensional crises, such as the combination of conflicts and droughts in South Sudan, Somalia and the Republic of Yemen, leading to food shortages (Beltramo et al, 2019;Verme & Gigliarano, 2019). While the humanitarian approach to refugee assistance assumes that refugee situations and camps are temporary, in practice, most refugee crises are protracted, with refugees living in long-term camps, surviving on monthly food rations (Fenn et al, 2021;Sterck & MacPherson, 2019).…”

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“…The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy has also led to a decline in donations to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN's Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which in turn has significantly reduced the food rations of refugees, and/or cash allowances (Manirambona et al, 2021). Given these shortfalls, humanitarian organisations are forced to prioritise among the many assessed needs (Beltramo et al, 2019). There is not much evidence, however, of the effectiveness of targeting strategies (Beltramo et al, 2019).Differing personal characteristics and experiences (e.g.…”

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“…Given these shortfalls, humanitarian organisations are forced to prioritise among the many assessed needs (Beltramo et al, 2019). There is not much evidence, however, of the effectiveness of targeting strategies (Beltramo et al, 2019).Differing personal characteristics and experiences (e.g. professional background, education, gender, age, access to the labour market, access to overseas remittances) play a crucial role in determining displaced persons' level of self-reliance; and the degree to which they will be adversely affected by ration cuts (Horstmann et al, 2019;Easton-Calabria & Omata, 2018).…”

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Measuring Poverty in Forced Displacement Contexts

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Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has changed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011 and the peak of the European migration crisis in 2015. This paper reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced populations; discusses the main data and measurement challenges associated with this type of population; illustrates selected empirical findings that have emerged from the recent literature; and provides an overview of the substantial effort that humanitarian and development organizations are currently undertaking to close this historical gap in poverty measurement.

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Identifying Poor Refugees for Targeting of Food and Multi-Sectoral Cash Transfers in Niger

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Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation

Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation

Humanitarian Ration Cuts: Impacts on Vulnerable Groups

Measuring Poverty in Forced Displacement Contexts

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