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Housing Finance Mechanisms in Mexico  
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This report examines the housing finance system in Mexico. It reviews the nature and scope of the housing problem, the housing standards, the housing market, the housing finance sector, the mortgage system and the capital market. It examines the r...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 80, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Challenges of Municipal Finance in Africa; with special reference to Gaborone city, Botswana  
View Details Urbanization in the last 20 years has become one of the most important trends in human settlement development and the prospects of all developing countries continue to be deeply affected by rapid urban population growth. While Africa was 80% rural ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 54, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Ghana  
View Details The need to provide adequate, suitable and equitable housing has remained a major priority of every government. Even though housing is a basic necessity of life, more than half of the population in Ghana live in poor houses where they have no acces...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Chile  
View Details This report evaluates the housing finance mechanism in Chile, with special attention to the issues of affordability, efficiency, effectiveness and stability.
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Year: 2009, Number of pages: 103, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Zimbabwe  
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The report focuses on key aspects and innovative instruments/practices that are specific to Zimbabwe.

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Year: 2009, Number of pages: 102, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in the Republic of Korea  
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This publication is an evaluation housing finance mechanisms in Republic of Korea. It details Republic of Korea’s experience with this type of financing and may provide other countries with insights that could inform their efforts to promote effec...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in India  
View Details India is home to over 1.1 billion people. With about one in every sixth person in the world living in India, housing perforce assumes significant importance. Successive Indian governments have regarded housing as a primary need of the people. The n...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 69, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing for All: The Challenges of Affordability,Accessibility and Sustainability  
View Details This report provides a comprehensive review of the challenges for low and moderate income housing. It focuses on the issues of affordability, accessibility and sustainability in resolving the housing problem. It looks at both formal and informal in...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 104, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Indonesia  
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This report examines the nature and scope of the housing problem, the housing sector and the financial sector in Indonesia. It describes the structure, patterns, trends, characteristics and evolution of housing finance. It reviews the main playe...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 76, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Systems In South Africa  
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This report examines the housing finance mechanisms in South Africa. The report looks at the macro-economic conditions and legal environment in which housing finance is operating. It discusses the role of the state, private sector, multilateral ...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 96, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Peru  
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This report examines the nature and scope of the housing problem in Peru. It reviews the evolution of the housing finance systems and main players of the housing finance system and driving forces for the change. It introduces mortgage finance de...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Bolivia  
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This report reviews the housing finance mechanisms and instruments in Bolivia. It consists of six parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the political, macro-economic and financial sector and its development issues in Bolivia. Part 2 describes th...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Thailand  
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The report sets the Thai economy as a background for examining the housing finance system. It looks at the real estate market and housing market; the evolution of housing development and housing market. It reviews the provision of low income hou...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 109, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Financing Affordable Housing in Europe  
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This evaluation of social housing finance in Europe is placed in the context of the purpose of social housing, the sources of funds and the institutions that are used for provision. The effectiveness of social housing finance systems and the tra...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai  
View Details This report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid urbanization. It illustrates how China achieve such a great ...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 115, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
The Role of Government in the Housing Market  
View Details The diversity of Asia provides unique opportunities for examining the effectiveness of different policies and instruments. The Asian financial crisis reveals our ignorance of market operations and makes us to rethink the Asian economic environment ...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban-Rural Linkages Approach to Sustainable Development  
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This report underscores the economic, social and environmental inter-relationship and interdependence that exist between rural and urban areas. It provides a critical assessment of concepts, methods and practices of the urban-rural linkage approac...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 271, Type of publication: Book
Urban-Rural Linkages  
View Details A 10-year bibliographical record of urban-rural linkages
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 92, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Macroeconomic Factors and Urban Growth: an Explanatory Analysis  
View Details This study is an attempt to analyze the relationship between macroeconomic factors and urban growth in the contemporary world, selecting 17 countries to provide some insights. It reviews current thinking on the relationship between stabilization poli...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 76, Type of publication: Book
Management Of Revolving Funds For House Improvement Loans (THE)  
View Details Based on the Deutsche Geselischaft fOr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)/National Housing Institute (INVI) Experimental.Housing Improvement and Community Mobilization Project, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Can be used independently or with the 31 -minu...
Year: 1991, Number of pages: 135, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
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