Learning Curves: Does Low-Income Housing Finance Help the Poor?
Asian Development Bank | March 2012
Abstract
The housing finance component had three objectives: (i) to increase access of low-income households to market-based housing finance through the formal sector; (ii) to facilitate improvements in housing conditions and quality of life; and (iii) to promote formal banking sector interest in serving the low-income sector of the housing market. The project required that only households with monthly incomes below the 55th percentile of Sri Lanka’s income distribution be eligible to borrow. Housing loans were provided through local banks and financial institutions. At completion, the project provided 28,378 housing loans.
Citation
Asian Development Bank. 2012. Learning Curves: Does Low-Income Housing Finance Help the Poor?. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3442. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Public Financial Management
Financial System
Financial Statistics
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Pension Funds
Mutual Funds
Social Equity
Financial Aspects
Fiscal Policy
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Pension plans
Individual retirement accounts
Employee pension trusts
Investment management
Investments
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