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 …

), insufficient long-term financing, and high inflation. The housing deficit could be eliminated in five to eight years if well …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 …

communities in eight small and mid-size cities. This is achieved through the involvement of poor families in the co-financing and … co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement … and financing microenterprises. …

Drawing on the innovative sources of financing for public security that have developed in Latin American and the … citizen security. The paper focuses on the structure of financing for the security budget and does not attempt to provide an … paper provides a guideline on how to think about the merits of different new financing instruments and of earmarking these …