Title: Housing and finance in developing countries
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. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Housing, Case studies, Finance, Housing policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Infrastructure, Housing, developing countries, Housing, finance
Places: Developing countries