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"The recent global financial crisis has shaken the confidence of developed and developing countries alike in the very blueprint of financial and macro policies that underlie the western capitalist systems. In an effort to contain the crisis from spreading, the authorities in the US and many...
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"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
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"The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health, education, finance, migration,...
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written by leading academics in index number theory and by recognised experts in RPPIs compilation. Its development has been …
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Building Cities reviews the experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean region in the design and implementation of neighbourhood upgrading programmes. The volume has a particular focus on the lessons learned by specialists of the Inter-American Development Bank and their technical and...
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Despite a recent expansion in housing finance, Brazil still faces a severe housing shortage, especially among lower …-income people, and it is important to examine the development, limitations and prospects of the country's housing finance market … contractual obligations or is merely an effect of the higher level of housing loans imposed by the government on financial …
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Using micro data on judicial proceedings in Uruguay, this paper presents evidence that female defendants receive more favorable treatment in courts than male defendants. This is due to longer foreclosure proceedings and higher probabilities of being granted extensions in evictions and...
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In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the … main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the macroeconomic environment in order to advance a policy … agenda for housing policy reform. The demand for housing was calculated and tenure choice was analyzed. Structural …
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co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement …
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Building Cities reviews the experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean region in the design and implementation of neighbourhood upgrading programmes. The volume has a particular focus on the lessons learned by specialists of the Inter-American Development Bank and their technical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772329