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Improving Access to Urban Land for All Residents: Fulfilling...
As the world is urbanizing, many cities are grappling with a population that is growing rapidly, thereby increasing demand for land and housing. This pressure on land and housing markets often is...
Gender Equality and Development - Expanding women’s access t...
Poor urban women give high priority to affordable access to well-located serviced plots and houses. Women’s locational preferences, motives for investing in housing and priorities for services ma...
Housing and Urbanization in Africa Unleashing a Formal Marke...
The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development.The consequences for living standards ...
Housing Market and Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Background Paper for World Bank Report No. 68824-ECA “In Search of Opportunities: How a More Mobile Workforce Can Propel Ukraine’s Prosperity”
Housing in Indonesia: Expanding Access, Improving Efficiency
A well-functioning housing sector should continue to be a priority for the Government of Indonesia. The housing sector is a key element of sustainable urban development and is a driver of economi...
Georgia Urban Strategy
The intent of this report is to establish a broad-brush understanding of the housing situation in Georgia, and provide strategic policy recommendations to inform Georgia’s Urban Strategy. Given the ab...
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape - Measuring a Decade of...
Urbanization in East Asia is a transformational phenomenon that can help improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people during the coming decades. Urban policy makers and planners have an im...
Expanding Housing Finance to the Underserved in South Asia
Currently, more than a billion people around the globe live in inadequate housing. One in every four people on the planet lives in the South Asia region, and more than 14 percent of South Asians ...
Stocktaking of the Housing Sector in Sub‐Saharan Africa - Pa...
Ethiopia’s history and current landscape of housing delivery is rather unique among Sub‐Saharan countries. The former Marxist‐government’s nationalization of housing in 1975 has led to the condit...
Final Report on City Development and Slum Upgradation Strate...
During the last 50 years, the population of India has grown two and a half times, but urban India has grown by nearly five times. Karnataka is among the highly urbanized state with 34% of its pop...
Stocktaking of the Housing Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Par...
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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor
Abstract Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods t...