Housing and finance in developing countries: Invisible issues on research and policy agendas

Habitat International

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 333-357

  Datta, Kavita ^a   Jones, Gareth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Botswana; Housing finance; Mexico; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; COPING STRATEGY; HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING POLICY;

BOTSWANA; MEXICO;

EID: 0034911655     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-3975(00)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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