The enabling approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and … households are forced to use informal mechanisms to access housing, such as purchasing land in illegal subdivisions or squatting … housing construction undertaken by poor households through an enabling approach can make a signifi cant contribution to …

growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two … been accompanied by an increase in urban poverty levels.Abstract: Las áreas centrales de una ciudad contienen una mezcla de ….3 billion people live in urban areas. This significant increase in urban population has resulted from both natural population …

The enabling approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and … households are forced to use informal mechanisms to access housing, such as purchasing land in illegal subdivisions or squatting … housing construction undertaken by poor households through an enabling approach can make a signifi cant contribution to …

is of interest to specialists in social and urban development, as well as to those who define the policies and design the …-American Development Bank and their technical and managerial counterparts in the agencies that execute the loans granted for neighbourhood …

co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement …This document analyses the experience of community participation and sustainability in the Local Development Programme …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to … the sectors of society, and more open and transparent processes are essential to sustaining development. …

proposes and implements a replicable methodology for a comparative cost analysis of three similar poverty alleviation programs …

neighborhood upgrading programs to deal with the multiple problems of urban poverty. These programs employ a methodology of … outcomes: housing, neighborhood, and individual. For each type of outcome, the authors present a literature review of common …

their impacts on local communities. For projects in the areas of urban and rural development, the aim is to both minimize … reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate …