Housing and finance in developing countries
by Datta, Kavita Jones, Gareth A.
Housing and Finance in Developing Countries 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 purposes 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 c…
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- Full title :Housing and finance in developing countries / edited by Kavita Datta and Gareth A. Jones.
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Housing and Finance in Developing Countries 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 purposes 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 these schemes and evaluate links between gender, housing and finance.
Providing important insights into how housing provision is affected by accessibility to finance, this book will be particularly valuable to those studying within geography, urban studies and development, as well as to practitioners in NGOs and international institutions.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiii, 270 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:041517242X, 9780415172424
- oclc:ocm39210102
- LC Classification:HD7391
- Dewey Decimal:363.5/8/091724
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