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Guide to Municipal Finance  
View Details This Guide to Municipal Finance describes the current issues in municipal finance and the ways in which local governments finance services and infrastructure. It sets out a basic economic framework that is used to evaluate the different aspects of ...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Community-Based Housing Finance Initiatives  
View Details This report examines one of the main innovations and trends in community-based housing finance initiatives - the Community Mortgage Programme in Philippines. The Community Mortgage Programme in Philippines is an innovative financing scheme that aims ...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 65, 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 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)
Enhancing Resource Allocation to Urban Development in Africa  
View Details This report draws on the main papers, discussions and recommendations of the African Regional Seminar on Enhancing Resource Allocation to Cities to Strengthen their Role as Engines of Economic Growth and Development – convened by the Urban Economy ...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 82, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovative Policies for the Urban Informal Economy  
View Details An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country cities. This report (i) reviews regulatory factors constraining the development and operation of urban informal...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 125, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Global Report on Human Settlements 2005 - Financing Urban Shelter  
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Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyzes housing fi...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 246, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Towards the Poverty Eradication Goal: Structure and Infrastructure of Microfinance and Microcredit Industry in Eastern Africa  
View Details This publication examines access to microcredit and microfinance and looks at how to improve access to microcredit and microfinance through savings and credit cooperatives. It examines the structure and infrastructure of microcredit and microfinance ...
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 125, Type of publication: Book
Community-based Housing Credit Arrangements in Low-income Housing: Assessment of Potentials and Impacts  
View Details The report documents the proceeding of an expert group meeting held on community-based housing credit arrangements in low-income housing. The objective of the expert group meeting was to bring together experts on community-based housing finance in lo...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book
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
Financing Adequate Shelter for All  
View Details The publication, Financing Adequate Shelter for All, aims at addressing the housing financing problem in developing countries. The publication is the result of two conferences organised by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 252, Type of publication: Book
Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1  
View Details   Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 35, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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