The refugee crisis in Lebanon and Jordan: the need for economic development spending

Abstract

The most effective way to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis is for neighbouring states to assume a leading role in development spending, infrastructure upgrading and job creation, particularly in the most underdeveloped regions of those countries.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• Syria crisis
• Syria
• refugees
• protracted displacement
• development