African Housing Dynamics : Lessons from the Kenyan Market
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1 Yannis Arvanitis is a Research Economist ([email protected]), African Development Bank. The author is grateful to Ron Leung and Issa Faye for fruitful discussions and useful comments, as well as to Defo Nelly Elza and Femi Adewole from Shelter Afrique, Kola Dairo and Subha Nagarajan for their peer reviews. The author is also thankful to Ahmed Jeridi for statistical assistance. Chief Economist Complex | AEB Volume 4, Number 3, 2013
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