Housing & Land

The World Bank Group focuses on assisting national and local governments in formulatingpolicies and programs on two aspects of the sector: linking real estate market development to overall economic development in client countries and focusing on how to make the housing market more efficient to provide adequate shelter for all city dwellers.

Urban Housing projects supported by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation

from 1972 to 2005.

1972-1986: $4.4 billion (2001 US$)*

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1987-2005: $10.3 (2001 US$)*

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The Growth in Bank Lending for Various Infrastructure Components by Decade*

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*Source: World Bank loan data

Of Interest

Seminar: Tackling the Shelter Challenge of Cities: Thinking It Through Together.

NEW PUBLICATION: Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending: What Have We Learned?.

World Bank Research Observer Journal Article: Housing in Developing Countries: Conjectures and Refutations.

Recent Publications:

The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion

Measuring the Risk on Housing Investment in the Informal Sector: Theory and Evidence from Pune, India,

Shelter Strategies for the Urban Poor: Idiosyncratic and Successful, but Hardly Mysterious,

Squatter City Blog:squatters and squatter cities around the world, by Robert Neuwirth

Getting the Best From Cities.(file size 194k) Chapter 6 from the 2003 World Development Report.

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