Housing and Finance in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 1998
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-415-17242-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon the lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices. Both public and private formal finance institutions have experienced great difficulty in lending below a middle-income client group, and are often reluctant to lend for the purpose of housing at all. This failure of formal finance to filter down to low-income households, and in particular to women, has led various NGOs and community groups to create and adopt innovative finance programmes, such as informal savings banks and credit rotating schemes. The authors critically assess the impact of theses schemes, and evaluate links between gender, housing and finance.
Reviews / Votes
'...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, 2000More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-17242-4 (9780415172424)
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Kavita Datta | Gareth Jones
Housing and Finance in Developing Countries
E-Book
10/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Kavita Datta | Gareth Jones
Housing and Finance in Developing Countries
E-Book
10/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Kavita Datta, Gareth Jones
Content
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