TY - CHAP
T1 - Housing policies in developing countries: Microfinance
AU - Smets, P.G.S.M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society face difficulties in accessing and coping with conventional mortgage finance and are better assisted with housing microfinance. This enables the poor, especially in 'developing' countries to build their shelter in an incremental way. To meet this demand, providers of housing microfinance have many possibilities for expanding their business. Innovations, for example, are found in business linkages of microfinance institutions and building material suppliers, and community-based financial systems. However, there are also bottlenecks concerning microfinance lenders, the financial sector, capital market, and shelter sector. © 2012 Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved..
AB - Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society face difficulties in accessing and coping with conventional mortgage finance and are better assisted with housing microfinance. This enables the poor, especially in 'developing' countries to build their shelter in an incremental way. To meet this demand, providers of housing microfinance have many possibilities for expanding their business. Innovations, for example, are found in business linkages of microfinance institutions and building material suppliers, and community-based financial systems. However, there are also bottlenecks concerning microfinance lenders, the financial sector, capital market, and shelter sector. © 2012 Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved..
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00236-8
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00236-8
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780080471716
SP - 573
EP - 578
BT - International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home
A2 - Smith, S.J.
A2 - Elsinga, M.
A2 - O’Mahony, L.H.
A2 - Ong, S.E.
A2 - Wachter, S.
A2 - Wood, G.
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -