"Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.Traditionally the issues faced have been assumed to be merely offshoots of those encountered in industrialised nations...

Prologue / Raymond T. Abdulai, Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Edward Ochieng & Vida Maliene -- Links between real estate and construction studies and economic development I, construction and economic development / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Construction, real estate mortgage market development and economic...