Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned?
By reviewing the Bank's experience with shelter lending, this paper seeks to address the question of whether the Bank has helped developing countries deal with the inevitable problems that arise with urbanization, particularly problems with th...
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okr-10986-70612021-04-23T14:02:27Z Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? Buckley, Robert M. Kalarickal, Jerry ACCOUNTABILITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPROPRIATE HOUSING BANKING SERVICES BORROWING CAPITAL FLOWS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COST OF HOUSING FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL STABILITY HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEMAND HOUSING FINANCE HOUSING MARKET HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PRICES HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING SUBSIDIES ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACT INTEREST RATES INTERVENTION LAND TENURE LAND USE LARGE CITIES LICENSES LIVING CONDITIONS MORTGAGE LOANS OCCUPANCY PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE HOUSING PUBLIC PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC HOUSING PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC SECTOR SAVINGS SHELTER SLUMS SOCIAL EXCLUSION SUBSIDIARY TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN LAND URBAN PLANNING URBAN POOR URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION WATER SUPPLY ZONING By reviewing the Bank's experience with shelter lending, this paper seeks to address the question of whether the Bank has helped developing countries deal with the inevitable problems that arise with urbanization, particularly problems with the provision of shelter. It reviews the Bank's performance, with a focus on identifying lessons learned so that current demands can be more effectively addressed. In contrast to earlier studies, however, this review focuses more on how the changing policy environment has affected the structure of Bank assistance, rather than on how Bank assistance has affected the policy environment. This perspective is taken for two reasons. First, in recent years, benevolent changes in the policy environment are helping to ensure that better shelter conditions are provided to the poor in rapidly growing cities. However, despite the generally improved environment, some serious and often long-standing obstacles are impeding and, in some places, preventing progress. The emphasis on the policy environment allows the Bank to give greater weight to these constraints. Second, Bank shelter assistance is no longer an experimental program, as it was when the first review took place. Shelter assistance is now a mature sector, with 278 loans (including International Finance Corporation [IFC] loans). As a result, this review devotes considerably more attention to the outcomes of the Bank's shelter projects than did the earlier studies. Conclusions about shelter lending are by no means completely positive, however. In particular, while the nature of the lending has evolved to embrace the private sector more fully, it has also moved away from the poverty orientation that was for many years the core focus. If the Bank is to make a meaningful contribution to the Millennium Development Goal of affecting the lives of 100 million slum dwellers, this trend will have to change. 2012-06-04T20:54:49Z 2012-06-04T20:54:49Z 2006 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6799222/thirty-years-world-bank-shelter-lending-learned 978-0-8213-6577-9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7061 English en_US Directions in Development; Infrastructure CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication |
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ACCOUNTABILITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPROPRIATE HOUSING BANKING SERVICES BORROWING CAPITAL FLOWS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COST OF HOUSING FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL STABILITY HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEMAND HOUSING FINANCE HOUSING MARKET HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PRICES HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING SUBSIDIES ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACT INTEREST RATES INTERVENTION LAND TENURE LAND USE LARGE CITIES LICENSES LIVING CONDITIONS MORTGAGE LOANS OCCUPANCY PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE HOUSING PUBLIC PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC HOUSING PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC SECTOR SAVINGS SHELTER SLUMS SOCIAL EXCLUSION SUBSIDIARY TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN LAND URBAN PLANNING URBAN POOR URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION WATER SUPPLY ZONING |
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ACCOUNTABILITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPROPRIATE HOUSING BANKING SERVICES BORROWING CAPITAL FLOWS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COST OF HOUSING FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL STABILITY HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING DEMAND HOUSING FINANCE HOUSING MARKET HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING POLICY HOUSING PRICES HOUSING PROGRAMS HOUSING SUBSIDIES ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACT INTEREST RATES INTERVENTION LAND TENURE LAND USE LARGE CITIES LICENSES LIVING CONDITIONS MORTGAGE LOANS OCCUPANCY PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE HOUSING PUBLIC PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC HOUSING PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC SECTOR SAVINGS SHELTER SLUMS SOCIAL EXCLUSION SUBSIDIARY TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN LAND URBAN PLANNING URBAN POOR URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION WATER SUPPLY ZONING Buckley, Robert M. Kalarickal, Jerry Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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By reviewing the Bank's experience
with shelter lending, this paper seeks to address the
question of whether the Bank has helped developing countries
deal with the inevitable problems that arise with
urbanization, particularly problems with the provision of
shelter. It reviews the Bank's performance, with a
focus on identifying lessons learned so that current demands
can be more effectively addressed. In contrast to earlier
studies, however, this review focuses more on how the
changing policy environment has affected the structure of
Bank assistance, rather than on how Bank assistance has
affected the policy environment. This perspective is taken
for two reasons. First, in recent years, benevolent changes
in the policy environment are helping to ensure that better
shelter conditions are provided to the poor in rapidly
growing cities. However, despite the generally improved
environment, some serious and often long-standing obstacles
are impeding and, in some places, preventing progress. The
emphasis on the policy environment allows the Bank to give
greater weight to these constraints. Second, Bank shelter
assistance is no longer an experimental program, as it was
when the first review took place. Shelter assistance is now
a mature sector, with 278 loans (including International
Finance Corporation [IFC] loans). As a result, this review
devotes considerably more attention to the outcomes of the
Bank's shelter projects than did the earlier studies.
Conclusions about shelter lending are by no means completely
positive, however. In particular, while the nature of the
lending has evolved to embrace the private sector more
fully, it has also moved away from the poverty orientation
that was for many years the core focus. If the Bank is to
make a meaningful contribution to the Millennium Development
Goal of affecting the lives of 100 million slum dwellers,
this trend will have to change. |
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Buckley, Robert M. Kalarickal, Jerry |
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Buckley, Robert M. Kalarickal, Jerry |
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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending : What Have We Learned? |
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thirty years of world bank shelter lending : what have we learned? |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2012 |
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