Reforming Latin American Housing Markets
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Publisher: IDB
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781931003629
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China's Housing Reform and Outcomes
Author: Joyce Yanyun Man
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781558442115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis in-depth volume explains China's residential construction boom and reviews how some established trends are likely to challenge its housing market in coming years. It draws on household surveys and public data in China and provides important lessons about housing policy for China and other countries.
Reforming Land and Real Estate Markets
Author: Ahmed Galal
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLand and real estate reforms have not been effective at achieving their objectives, in part because of how they have been designed and implemented. To be successful, reforms must become comprehensive in design, argue the authors, although implementation may be phased over time and take local conditions into account. Reform must include three elements: 1) Institutional reforms that better define property rights, reduce information asymmetry, and improve contract enforcement. 2) Capital market reforms that make mortgage finance available at reasonable rates, especially for the poor. 3) Market reforms that reduce or eliminate the main distortions in the prices of goods and services produced by land and real estate assets. In their review of land and real estate reforms supported by the World Bank, the authors find that such reforms receive less attention at the conceptual stage than they should, considering their great impact on poverty, growth, and stability. They base their conclusion on the limited coverage of land and real estate issues in country assistance strategies, the main vehicle for identifying priority areas for reform. Most Bank-supported projects do not address all three elements critical for reform. And most provide no justification for excluding them, and no plan for follow-up. The Bank's Operations Evaluation Department rates Bank-supported land and real estate projects relatively well on outcome and sustainability but not on institutional development. But land and real estate reform is institutional by nature. The authors urge the Bank and policymakers to change course. After a comprehensive assessment of the status of real estate institutions and markets, all actors in this sector should be pulled together to develop a comprehensive approach to land and real estate reform.
Introduction to Housing
Author: Katrin B. Anacker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0820349690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery. The book focuses on the complexities of housing and housing-related issues, engendering an understanding of housing, its relationship to national economic factors, and housing policies. It comprises individual chapters written by housing experts who have specialization within the discipline or field, offering commentary on the physical, social, psychological, economic, and policy issues that affect the current housing landscape in the United States and abroad, while proposing solutions to its challenges.
Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-05-14
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521785556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.
Reforming Latin America's Economies
Author: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0230509908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive analysis of why reforms in Latin America have failed in achieving growth and equity. The book focuses on three strategic areas of reforms of the Washington Consensus: Macroeconomics, Trade and Finance.
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 3870
ISBN-13: 0080471714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvailable online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Seven Volume Set is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the microscale, to impacts on macro-economy. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished housing expert Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Susan Wachter, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team of 20 world-class scholars in all. Working at the cutting edge of their subject, liaising with an expert editorial advisory board, and engaging with policy-makers and professionals, the editors have worked for almost five years to secure the quality, reach, relevance and coherence of this work. A broad and inclusive table of contents signals (or tesitifes to) detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, but grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being. Housing professionals, both academics and practitioners, will find The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home useful for teaching, discovery, and research needs. International in scope, engaging with trends in every world region The editorial board and contributors are drawn from a wide constituency, collating expertise from academics, policy makers, professionals and practitioners, and from every key center for housing research Every entry stands alone on its merits and is accessed alphabetically, yet each is fully cross-referenced, and attached to one of seven thematic categories whose ‘wholes' far exceed the sum of their parts
Understanding Market Reforms
Author: J. Fanelli
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-10-27
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0230373615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been a widespread move toward more market-oriented policies and institutions across the developing and former socialist countries. 31 country studies were undertaken to try to understand the divergent results of these reforms. This book presents the findings of these studies, synthesized on a regional and global basis.
Property rights after market liberalization reforms
Author: Ricardo Fort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9086866298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book discusses the links between land access, property rights, and economic development, analyzing the results and limitations of a public intervention- Land Titling and Registration- that constitutes one of the main instruments for contemporary land policy in Peru. It attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the importance of institutions, like land property rights, in the context of market liberalization reforms. In operational terms, this means verifying whether land titling constitutes a necessary and/or sufficient condition to promote investments and increase land values. This book reveals that titling and registration can be considered as a necessary condition to improve investment opportunities when its implementation procedure is based on the recognition of previous informal land rights and community networks, because its effect on the reduction of transaction costs at a regional level improves the dynamics of land markets and facilitates the entrance of formal financial institutions. A decentralized program is more likely to understand and correctly assess local conditions, as well as to concentrate its work on poorer farmers confronting stronger limitations to acquire tenure security by other means. Targeting must be applied also at the regional level, identifying less-developed areas that can benefit from the externality effects provided by increased levels of titling density. The presence of other limitations that constrain the participation of small farmers in the formal credit market, and the inability of titling to solve them by itself, makes it difficult to consider this policy as a sufficient condition to improve the livelihood of poorer farmers. Complementary policies that provide small farmers with the opportunity to increase their land-holdings, as well as the possibility to acquire insurance against negative shocks, need urgent implementation."
Social Policy Reform and Market Governance in Latin America
Author: L. Haagh
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-10
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0230502687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection offers a critical analytical perspective and fresh empirical data on recent market-orientated social policy reforms in Latin America. The six case studies presented examine labour, education, health and general social development programmes. A particular focus is placed on the ways in which market-enhancing reforms such as demand-based provision, social policy targeting and privatization respond to issues of equity, coverage and the quality of provision.
