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Housing Finance Systems
Market Failures and Government Failures
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness.
by Susmita Dasgupta
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world. This supply glut is reducing margins and turning steel into a sunset industry. Steel consumes as much as four times the amount of raw materials as its produced...
by Irina Markova
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Investmentbanking/Finanzmarktanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mitte 1986 hat Michail Gorbatschow ein Prozess zur Umbau und Modernisierung der sowjetischen...
by Bowie, Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed...
Governing Metropolitan Transport
Institutional Solutions for Policy Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of institutions...
Income Contingent Loans
Theory, Practice and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This study explores the prospect of the application of the basic principles of ICL into many other potential areas of social and economic policy. Using case studies it evaluates previously implemented ICL schemes where interest rate subsidies are usually the norm, and questions the merits of this approach.
Who me, Poor?
How India's youth are living in urban poverty to make it big
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The characteristics and reasons for urban poverty are manifold and seem to repeat across class structures: migration, culture shock, real estate costs and unrealistic expectations of city life, a lack of financial education, corporate cultures that perpetuate stereotypical workforces, a glamourised...
Controversies in Local Economic Development
Stories, Strategies, Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...
Sustainability Assessment
Criteria and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based...
The Urban Housing Manual
Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Red tape is a significant stumbling block to the provision of affordable shelter to the urban poor and, indeed, slums are largely the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. This practice-oriented manual tackles the issue of regulatory frameworks for urban upgrading and new housing development,...
Municipalities and Community Participation
A Sourcebook for Capacity Building
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
'Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It... also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at national or provincial/state level) and for international agencies. Firstly, it is a reminder of the importance...
by Charles Turner, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
As the old paradigm of materialism that is causing social, ecological, and economic injustices crumbles, it is essential to consciously participate...
What is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees?
“Entrepreneurs of the Self” in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Caroline Woolard’s story begins with the decision that she would not put any money into paying rent but rather put every dollar she made into...
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.