Welfare and Poverty

Provides a poverty and welfare assessment of Syrian refugees in Jordan to understand what groups of refugees are poor, what their socioeconomic characteristics are, and where the pockets of deep poverty are located. The Syrian refugee population in Jordan has clear predictors of welfare and poverty, including migration patterns; characteristics of the principal applicant (PA); housing, water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH); coping strategies; and protection indicators. The poverty profile shows that Syrian refugees follow particular trajectories depending on where they flee from and where they settle in Jordan, and these trajectories reveal different paths of poverty. Refugees coming from the Syrian governorates of Aleppo and Damascus and going to the Jordan governorate of Tafilah fall among the poorest with over 90 percent poverty rate. Persistent drought in the Northeast of Syria had already displaced many poor agricultural workers among these refugees before the present crisis.