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Displaying 1 - 5 of 52Barriers Constraining the Low and Middle Income Housing Finance Market in Bangladesh
The study aims to assess the market for low and middle income housing finance in Bangladesh and identify the demand trajectory of this segment over the next 4 years. In addition, the report identifies factors that constrain the housing finance from serving low and middle income households.
Handshake, No. 11 (October 2013)
This issue includes the following
headings: donors: aid versus trade; investment: seeking
strong partners; power: hydro heats up; water: sanitation
solutions; and first person: African Development Bank President
Handshake, No. 2 (July 2011)
This issue includes the following
headings: renewable energy: wind and solar; energy
efficiency: green building; and green finance:
infrastructure finance.
Handshake, No. 10 (July 2013)
This paper includes the following
headings: education public, private, and partnerships, or
PPPs come of age; vouching for the future; mobile learning
dials up success; U.S. Secretary of Education by Arne
Duncan; perspective; compass; and legalese.
Handshake, No. 5 (April 2012)
This issue includes the following
headings: seeds and soil: smallholder agriculture;
innovation: pairing commercial buyers with rural producers;
grain storage: a ready role for public-private partnerships
(PPPs); agricultural clusters: powering Africas agricultural
potential; and interviews: AgDevCo, bill and Melinda gates
foundation, earth policy institute.