The vast majority of rental housing around the world is unsubsidized and in private hands. Everywhere there are great needs for safe, decent, and affordable housing at the lowest income levels. A few countries-mostly developed ones-have a sizable social rental sector, yet even here the demand...

C1; C2; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Background to the Case Studies; Structure of the Case Studies; Box I.1 Key Takeaways from Public Office, Private Interests: Accountability through Income and Asset Disclosure; Boxes; Key Considerations in...

Millions of migrants worldwide send billions of dollars in remittances each year to their families or communities of origin. In many developing countries, remittances are an important source of family and national income and also are the largest source of external financing. Remittances are...

Takaful, which means 'cooperative', is an insurance approach that is instrumental to providing insurance services to Muslims and others with religious objections to aspects of conventional commercial insurance models, specifically interest payments, uncertainty, or gambling kind of transactions.