Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs) face critical financing gaps in key strategic sectors, including housing finance, that traditional funding sources will not be able to meet. This endangers their...
The Ethiopia Urban Land Supply and Affordable Housing Study (EULSAH) responds to the request fromthe Government of Ethiopia (GoE), Ministry of Urban Development and Construction to carry outfollow-on technical...
Emerging market economies (EMEs) face significant funding gaps in strategic sectors, such as infrastructure and small and medium enterprise (SME) financing, that if not addressed can stifle growth. In...
This report summarizes the results of the analytical work on housing market finance carried outby the World Bank Group at the request of the Ministry of Finance. The purpose of the work wasto inform the...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
The Government of Romania (GOR) has asked the World Bank to support its efforts to harmonizepublic investments financed by the European Union and from the State budget. The objectives of thiswork are to...
This paper presents new data on the depth and penetration of mortgage markets across countries. There is a large variation across both dimensions of mortgage market development, across countries, but also...
The objective of this paper, besides offering insight in the regional and global development and stability issues, is to initiate a dialog with housing finance market stakeholders on the course of action...
New data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database show that 7 percent of adults worldwide have an outstanding loan for the purchase of a home. The data also show great variation across...
This note brings together some of the policy lessons learnt in the creation of mortgage liquidity facilities around the world. It looks at the main benefits which can be derived from the creation of a...
The current financial crisis has had a major impact on the financial sectors of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. The impact has been exacerbated in many cases by the presence of foreign currency...