This paper analyzes housing sector policies and their effects on macroeconomic and sectoral performance in a number of Middle East and North African (MNA) countries. Some of these countries confront very rapid growth in their labor forces, others are now experiencing the world's highest rates of...

Turkey's spontaneous settlements (gecekondus) house half the urban population and face infrastructure deficiencies that reduce quality of life and economic productivity while increasing the vulnerability of the urban poor. This article reports on research that used the new institutional...