Vulnerability of Victims of Civil Conflicts: Empirical Evidence for the Displaced Population in Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Moya, Andrés

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.015

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“…As soon as the minimum level of security is attained, and savings dry out, it is reasonable to expect that IDPs will seek employment opportunities. Significant falls in household consumption that people experience after internal displacement (Fiala, 2015;Ibáñez and Moya, 2010a;Ibáñez and Moya, 2010b;Ibáñez and Vélez, 2015;Oruc, 2015) would only contribute to the willingness to find work.…”

Section: Long-term Labour Market Disadvantage Of the Idps: Theoreticamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The loss of assets, such as housing, land or livestock, has been documented in various contexts of forced displacement (Engel and Ibáñez, 2007;Fiala, 2015;JIPS, 2012;Ibáñez and Moya, 2010a;Kett, 2005;World Bank, 2013). At the extreme, the destruction or confiscation of assets may be the very cause for displacement (Engel and Ibáñez, 2007;World Bank, 2016).…”

Section: Long-term Labour Market Disadvantage Of the Idps: Theoreticamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries

Ivļevs¹,

Veliziotis

2018

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Section: Long-term Labour Market Disadvantage Of the Idps: Theoreticamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Long-term Labour Market Disadvantage Of the Idps: Theoreticamentioning

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Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries

Ivļevs¹,

Veliziotis

2018

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…For instance, nationally representative data used by Ibáñez and Moya (2010) indicates that 13 percent of IDP migrate preventively fearing the escalation of violence in their communities.…”

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“…11 Testimonies of IDP, as well as administrative data, indicate that displacement is triggered by a shock of violence, in some cases together with an explicit order from an armed group, and it is thus perceived as an involuntary decision as the testimony at the beginning of this section portrays (Grupo de Memoria Histórica, 2010b;Human Rights Watch, 2010;Indepaz, 2011;Ibáñez and Moya, 2010;Reyes, 2010). As a result of the migration process, IDP lose their lands and assets, and arrive at urban areas where the demand for their 10 By spreading fear, uncertainty and terror, armed groups undermined the popular support for their opponents and gained control of the movements, activities, preferences and habits of the population.…”

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Violence, Psychological Disorders, and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes in Colombia

Moya

2013

SSRN Journal

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“…3 Of course the true economic costs for sending countries are far higher than can simply be captured through a crude approximation of lost earnings. Forced migrants also abandon their homes resulting in an instantaneous loss of wealth, leave behind their land and other productive assets stemming any economic returns previously derived from them and subsequently reduce investment in other productive activities (Ibáñez and Moya, 2010). Moreover social institutions for community risk-sharing are often destroyed such that income shocks likely impact upon household consumption directly.…”

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Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

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Forced migration, often resulting from violent conflict, imposes large economic costs on both sending and receiving countries, on those agencies that coordinate humanitarian services and most importantly upon the forced migrants themselves. Programs encouraging the return of refugees are therefore potentially crucial interventions, which can result in all parties benefiting. In this paper, we assess the UNHCR post-return shelter assistance program in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2011, the country most affected by refugee movements, where no less than one-third of the population is a returnee. We are motivated by the fact that the resolution of lost housing and property is commonly understood as a key ingredient in sustainable return and reintegration. Given the infeasibility of randomizing shelter assistance to those repatriated, we implement a variety of matching techniques to insulate our results from selection biases. Adopting a multidimensional approach, our results show that shelter assistance reduces multidimensional poverty by around six percent. This reduction in poverty is driven by particular indicators of deprivation including dietary diversity, food security and heating, all of which are shown to fall by five to six percent depending on the matching specification. The former results are particularly encouraging in the context of Afghanistan given the prevalence of chronic malnutrition in the country.

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Vulnerability of Victims of Civil Conflicts: Empirical Evidence for the Displaced Population in Colombia

Cited by 120 publications

References 23 publications

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries

Violence, Psychological Disorders, and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes in Colombia

Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

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