: mortgage credit in central-northern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- 8. Rural credit markets in eighteenth … centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the … transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern economic growth. Historians have viewed the mortgage both …

centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the … transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern economic growth. Historians have viewed the mortgage both … variety of forms that the mortgage took, and show how an intricate balance was struck between the interests of the borrower …

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent …

Jappelli and Pagano (1994) argues that tightening the borrowing constraints in the mortgage markets promotes savings … savings and growth rates to fall. Therefore, for countries with scarce mortgage availability like those in the Middle East …, expanding the mortgage markets to some extent is conducive to savings and growth …