This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost...

Chapter 1: Strategy and Property Rights -- Chapter 2: Microfoundations for Strategy -- Chapter 3: The Property Rights Approach: An Overview -- Chapter 4: Ownership and Property Rights -- Chapter 5: Resources and Value Creation -- Chapter 6: Strategizing and Positioning -- Chapter 7: Property...

Introduction -- Finance and Procurement Options for Infrastructure Development -- Theory of PPP -- Overview of PPP Infrastructure Development in Developing Countries -- Current Status of Infrastructure Development and Achievements for PPP in the Philippines -- Changes in Infrastructure...

Long-Term Transition of Population and National Land System -- Transformation Processes of National Land Systems and Reconstruction Policy from a Spatial Economics Perspective -- Process of Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake with Pictures and Data -- Population Decline and Creative...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Portuguese Experience of Public Private Partnerships and Renegotiations -- Chapter 3. Fertagus (trains) -- Chapter 4. Lusoponte (bridge) -- Chapter 5. Metro Sul do Tejo (light rail) -- Chapter 6. AEA Highway (road sector) -- Chapter 7. Litoral Centro –...

Chapter 1.Introduction to Project Finance -- Chapter 2.Project Financing and Direct Conventional Financing -- Chapter 3.Sources of project funds -- Chapter 4.Bankability -- Chapter 5.Public Procurement: Laws and Regulations -- Chapter 6.Assessment of project’s viability and analytical tools --...

Chapter 1: Public Investment Criteria: A Tentative Specific Survey on the Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Early Years -- Chapter 2: Economic Effects of Mei-Shin and To-Mei Expressways Based on the World Bank Formula of Fifty Years Ago -- Chapter 3: Generalized Benefit-Cost Criteria: Public...

Chapter 1. The Challenges and Opportunities of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 2. Capital Planning and Budgeting for Infrastructure -- Chapter 3. Traditional Methods of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 4. Innovative Mechanisms of Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 5. Case Studies in...

1. Islamic Finance for Sustainable Development Goals -- 2. Islamic versus Conventional Infrastructure Project Finance vis-à-vis Time Overrun Issues -- 3. Identifying Infrastructure Sectors for Islamic Public–Private Partnership Projects -- 4. Sustainable Islamic SME Financing -- 5.Economic...

Chapter One: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Introduction and Overview -- Chapter Two: Proliferating Major Power Infrastructure Initiatives -- Chapter Three: Potential Economic Impact of BRI: A CGE Analysis -- Chapter Four: Perception Survey of Asian Opinion Leaders -- Chapter Five: BRI and...