Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As I had shown so far in my fifteen minute talk at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC (here’s the full presentation, link in pdf), informality is the norm in rapidly growing global-south cities. So [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Back in late May, at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC, I had fifteen minutes to describe AHI’s theory of impact in housing finance and slum upgrading, and somehow I managed to distill my full presentation (link in pdf) into [...]
By:David A. Smith A month ago, at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC, I delivered (link in pdf) what may prove the most significant talk I’ve ever given. Six words and then some The talk was important not precisely for its content, although that will be the [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 2 and Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we’ve seen in previous parts of this post, it was bad enough for microfinance that in late 2010 a political firestorm broke in Andhra Pradesh stemming from allegations of borrowers being driven to suicide by unscrupulous for-profit debt [...]
[Continued from Friday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith A year and a half ago, the business of microfinance in India imploded after incendiary newspaper stories implied that loan collectors were driving borrowers to suicide. In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2012, Sunita, 22, right, and her daughter Shwetha, [...]
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