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Kampala: Situation Analysis of Informal Settlements

Slums Housing Conditions in Kampala This study based on informal/slum settlement of Kampala, the capital city and main commercial hub of Uganda. Housing is one of the major issues often tackled in slum upgradin...

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Kenya: Access to Housing Finance and Exploring the issues

The document based on access to housing finance in Kenya. It explores housing finance in Kenya, overview of Kenya’s macro economy,  Kenya’s regulatory framework for finance,  employment, household incomes and i...

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Kenya – Affordable Housing

The Shelter is a physiological human need. It is like food. So much so that even those who cannot afford it still need it. By its nature housing represents a major investment requiring a substantial capital out...

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Kenya: Housing Finance and Housing Delivery Systems

The document based on delivery housing and finance for housing in Kenya, steps recently taken in this regards and future actions needed to be taken.

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Kenya – The Enabling Environment for Housing Finance

The shacks in the shantytowns of Lima, Peru, to tin-roofed mud huts in the slums of Gujarat, India, insecurity of tenure and uneven income streams force the poor to build their homes tentatively, one wall at a ...

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India: Urban Development and Land Markets

This document is based on Chennai’s spatial development with detailed data on land use, population density, and land values. Chennai has an extremely high population density at the city center that is becoming ...

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Pakistan: Mortgage Refinance Company

This document is an initial report proposed Pakistan Mortgage Refinance Company and its proposed outline. Economy of Pakistan is the 26th largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power, and the 47th ...

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Global: Slums – Conditions, Methods of Exclusion, General Causes and Causes of Deterioration

The document is an International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences about conditions and causes of slums. Slums are squalid sections of a city or town, areas in which most inhabitants are in or near poverty, s...

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Pakistan – A Case Study of the Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi

Orangi Pilot Project This research paper documenting the project based in Orangi Town, an administrative unit of Karachi, to overcome the problems that arise due to poverty, and are difficult to solve due to th...

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Pakistan : Poverty Alleviation

This document based on nature and ways of alleviation of poverty in Pakistan. Part I of the document ends with a section analyzing two alternative paradigms of poverty alleviation: the conventional top-down “de...

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Pakistan: Federal Budget-2016-17 (Consolidation)

This document is a brief on Pakistan’s federal budget for 2016-17 by IGI Securities. It covers budget overview, equity market overview, sector overview and reliefs and measures. Industrial sector in particularl...

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India: Current Land Policy Issues

The document discusses the agrarian structure of India and its land policy gradually developed over the years since independence. Land policy in India has been a major topic of government policy discussions sin...

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Bangladesh: Housing Finance System

The purpose of this study is to 1) provide a brief overview of existing housing finance systems in Bangladesh, including those available to the urban and rural low-income households, and, 2) to make suggestions...

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Bangladesh: The Grameen Bank Housing loan project

The document about the Grameen Bank Housing  Loan Scheme in Bangladesh, under which it is  giving some of the poorest  members of the rural community  by  means and materials of improved  housing  and improving...

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Bangladesh: Grameen Bank Housing Program

The Grameen Bank Programme which was started in 1976 in the  village of Johra by Dr. Mohammed Yunus, the then Director of  the Rural Economics Programme of the Department of  Economics in Chittagong University....

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Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation

This is a presentation of the Diagnostic Study & Reforms Program of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC). House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC) was established in 1952 as a specialized ...

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Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) Diagnostic Study for BHBFC Strengthening – July 2008

This document is a diagnostic study by World Bank for Strengthening BHBFC. The Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC), a specialized housing finance institution in Bangladesh, has been in operati...

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Bangladesh: House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC)

The document is giving a brief about Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) covering its background, brief history, product range, and portfolio of 2006-2007. BHBFC is the premier housing finance...

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Bangladesh: House Building Finance Corporation Loan Recovery Rules

This document gives the government notification of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation Loan regulations, 1996. The main point is describing in this document that, Where no other properties is offered ...

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Bangladesh: Final Draft Report on Housing

The document of extensive report on Bangladesh’s housing demand, supply, finance mechanism and availability, and various players in housing sector. This is a final draft report, and the author is unknown. Bangl...

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Bangladesh Slums In Dhaka City – Life Of Misery

  This write-up by writer Md. Rubel about the prevalence of slums in Bangladesh, covering reasons, characteristics, nature, and condition of slums in Bangladesh. In 2010, the population of the city of Dhak...