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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...
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The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...
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Government intervention in the construction sector as a way to boost the economy has been a constant in Colombia for the past 90 years. This paper explicitly tests the impact of the most recent of such interventions: a subsidy to the mortgage interest rate. The results show that the subsidy...
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(AMBA). First, hedonic price regressions for residential prices are augmented with neighborhood characteristics, based on a … indicators. The results indicate a strong but not perfect correlation between real estate prices, income levels and neighborhood …
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High delinquency rate of publicly provided mortgages in social housing programs are often interpreted to be due to …
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This paper investigates the international spillovers of housing demand shocks on real economic activity. The global … responses to an identified US housing demand shock confirm the existence of strong international spillovers to advanced … shows that synchronized housing demand shocks in advanced economies reinforce each other and have a deep and long …
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