Housing and Finance in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9780415172424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 296 str.

Kavita Datta; Gareth A. Jones

Opis

Nearly one half of the world's urban population lives in poverty and about 800 million people occupy substandard housing. This housing crisis has continued unabated despite over 20 years of research and policy. At the forefront of new policy initiatives, confirmed by recent conferences such as Habitat II in Istanbul, is an inititiative to afford greater priority to finance, yet, with the expediation that the provision of small quantities of finance to low-income households will bring real improvements to the quality and quantity of housing provision.

Recenzje

'...this is an interesting and useful volume which achieves its first goal of bringing together diverse experience in a readily accessible form.' - Christine M. E. Whitehead, London School of Economics, Urban Studies Vol.37, No.9, 2000

Spis treści

List of figures, List of tables, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, PART I. Position papers, 1. From self-help to self-finance: the changing focus of urban research and policy, 2. Housing finance and non-governmental organizations in developing countries, 3. Housing finance in developing countries: a review of the World Bank’s experience, PART II. Formal and informal housing finance, 4. The political economy of formal sector housing finance in Jamaica, 5. From commercial banking systems to non-commercial banking systems in Mexico, 6. Formal housing finance and the elderly in Singapore, 7. Better a ‘hut’ on the ground than a castle in the air: formal and informal housing finance for the urban poor in India, 8. Affording a home: the strategies of self-help builders in Colombia, 9. Housing finance for refugees and forced migrants in Russia, PART III. Gender, NGOs and micro-finance, 10. Interpreting gender and housing finance in community practice: the SPARC, Mahila Milan and NSDF experience, 11. Gender and micro-finance in Sri Lanka: the experience of the Women’s Credit Union, 12. Informal finance and women’s survival strategies: case studies from Cameroon and Zambia, 13. A gendered perspective on formal and informal housing finance in Botswana, 14. Engendering finance: a comparison of two micro-finance models in El Salvador, 15. Housing finance and empowerment in South Africa, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Kavita Datta, Gareth Jones