Housing and Finance in Developing Countries

List of contents

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

About the author

Kavita Datta, Gareth Jones

Summary

This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices.

Product details

• Authors: Kavita Datta, Datta Kavita, Gareth Jones
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.1998
• EAN: 9780415172424
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17242-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Weight: 710 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, Urban communities, Development Studies, Industry & industrial studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Industry and industrial studies, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Global South / Developing countries