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The Missing Foundations of Housing Finance: Incomplete Markets, Fragmented Policies and Emerging Solutions in Guatemala
Cuevas, Mario; Lee, Sigfrido; Bonilla, Maria Isabel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In Guatemala there are substantial and growing imbalances in the housing market; at the same time, financial markets remain shallow and underdeveloped. The analytical framework applied in this paper starts by identifying the types of market failures responsible for the underdevelopment of the...
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Reforming Latin American housing markets : a guide for policy analysis
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Housing Finance in Mexico: Current State and Future Sustainability
Lopez-Silva, Marco; Abreu-Lastra, Raul; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
financial implications for participating mortgage issuers, as poorer applicants with lower job stability are injected into the …’s principal mortgage issuer, which contains information on borrowers’ repayment behavior. It is found that borrowers who received … not seem to have negative financial implications for participating mortgage institutions. …
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Housing Finance in Peru: What is Holding it Back?
Bonilla, Miguel Palomino; Barrantes, Rudy Wong - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Housing for most Peruvians is improving but is still grossly inadequate. Nonetheless, public housing finance policies mainly involve programs that subsidize middle-income families and banks that lend to them. Research summarized in this paper indicates that financing will not be the main...
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Luz para las comunidades de la Chiquitania : los beneficios de la electrificación rural con energía renovable en Bolivia
Ballón, Sergio; Román, Soraya; Antonio, Katherine M.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2019
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Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and its Interaction with Public Policies
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based on Rosen’s (1974) two-step procedure consisting of...
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Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Steiner, Roberto; Becerra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
those working in the informal sector are more likely to purchase informal dwellings. Subsidies and access to mortgage credit …
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The Rental Market in Argentina: An Assessment Study
Moya, Ramiro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
owned and/or occupied substandard housing, sometimes without title. The lack of a mortgage market after 2001 explains the …
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Microinsurance in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
Iravantchi, Sheirin; Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The microinsurance market in Latin America is still in its embryonic phase. The purpose of this technical note is to better inform donors, national governments, and insurance companies interested in promoting financial inclusion about how they can accelerate the development of microinsurance...
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El uso del Sistema Integrado de Administración Financiera como instrumento de transparencia y control por la sociedad
Ferreira, Mauro José Fridman - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
El presente estudio evalúa los sitios web de transparencia de los gobiernos de 18 países Latinoamericanos por medio de la búsqueda en Internet, con el propósito de identificar tres tipos de requisitos relacionados con: (i) la revelación del contenido de la gestión de las finanzas...
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