Natural cataclysms (earthquakes, hurricanes and so forth) become natural disasters when they coincide with vulnerabilities; unfortunately, informal settlements in developing countries are only too often highly vulnerable - a reality amply and unhappily confirmed by available statistics. In this...

Whereas most experts recognize the substantial differences in the construction sector between developed and developing countries, very little is known about <italic>how</italic> and <italic>to what extent</italic> construction project governance actually differs between the two contexts. In order to shed light on these...

Urban low cost housing markets in developing countries are often inefficient and subsidized programmes can add further market distortions. In the case of South Africa, one of the important causes of the inefficiency of the housing market (and one that is often ignored) is the fact that housing...