Why have housing reforms failed to achieve the desired improvements in housing in the Philippines? A review of trends in government housing strategies shows that while many problems in housing are linked to institutional barriers in the land and financial markets, government reforms focused on...

This paper provides new estimates of the housing stock, construction rates and price developments by city tier in China in order to understand where imbalances might be concentrated, and the implications of any significant contraction. We also update estimates of the size of China's rapidly...

This paper is a narrative account and assessment of the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) process in three municipalities of the Negros Province, namely, Sagay City, Hinigaran and Cauayan. The GPB process was implemented with the objective of empowering civil society organizations to...

Die vorliegende Dokumentation enthält Beiträge zu einem Workshop, den die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung gemeinsam mit dem Münchner Institut für Sozialforschung (MISS) am 26. März 2002 in Düsseldorf durchführte. Unter dem Titel "Mehr Beschäftigung durch bürgerschaftliches Engagement und...