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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005-08-10
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9264010173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive issue-by-issue and country-by-country study of housing markets and housing finance markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002-03-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9264195947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis conference proceedings present papers providing the the first in-depth survey of current situation and challenges in the development of housing finance in major transition economies in particular, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
Author: Bertrand Renaud
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert M. Buckley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 0821365789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried about the ""dark satanic mills"" that were such a fundamental part of this revolution. However, despite his misgivings, he also suggested that it was necessary for societies to arm themselves with ""chariots of fire"" and other weapons so that they could master this process. In a somewhat more prosaic poetic vein World Bank President Robert McNamara launched the bank's shelter assistance programs saying that 'If cities do not begin to deal more constructively with poverty, poverty may begin to deal more destructively with cities.' These concerns would appear to have even more resonance today as the population of cities in developing countries increasing by unprecedented levels of more than 1 billion people per year for the next 15 years. This magnitude suggests the scale of the increase in the investment in shelter needed to meet the needs of this growing population."
Author: Alexander Fleming
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780821348147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains 21 papers focusing on a wide range of issues concerning financial sector transition in the countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA). It places the transition economies in the context of recent and prospective developments in global financial markets. This book also evaluates the experience of the last 10 years and reviews the progress from a command financial system to a market-based one, identifying some of the key characteristics of the financial transition.
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0465018807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
Author: Jozsef Hegedus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0415890144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the large-scale social housing programs begun in Eastern and Central Europe after 2000 as an attempt to mitigate the inequality and declining standards of living that took hold in the region after the wave of privatizations that accompanied the political turn of the 1990s. It provides both case studies and theoretical frameworks for evaluating their successes and failures.
Author: El-hadj M. Bah
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1137597925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surrounding the continent’s housing market and the constraints that behind-the-scenes policy makers need to address in their attempts to provide affordable housing for the majority in need. With Africa’s urban population growing rapidly, this study highlights how broad demographic shifts and rapid urbanization are placing enormous pressure on the limited infrastructure in many cities and stretching the economic and social fabric of municipalities to their breaking point. But beyond providing a snapshot of the present conditions of the African housing market, the book offers recommendations and actionable measures for policy makers and other stakeholders on how best to provide affordable housing and alleviate Africa’s housing deficit. This work will be of particular interest to practitioners, non-governmental organizations, private sector actors, students and researchers of economic policy, international development, and urban development.
Author: Michael J. Lea
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Josh Ryan-Collins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1509523294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that to understand this crisis, we must examine a crucial paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. The interaction of private home ownership and a lightly regulated commercial banking system leads to a feedback cycle. Unlimited credit and money flows into an inherently finite supply of property, which causes rising house prices, declining home ownership, rising inequality and debt, stagnant growth and financial instability. Radical reforms are needed to break the cycle. This engaging and topical book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why they can’t find an affordable home, and what we can do about it.
