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As I said, I think as an agenda, housing has really risen over the last few Session II
I've got a couple of conclusions, lessons learned from the World years. We somewhat overstretch now in terms of requests we're getting
Bank's side. One of the lessons that we've learned both from India and in. The dark green countries are where we've got active projects, the light
other projects is that for housing projects to work, for housing policies green ones where it's likely that we're going to have an active project in the
to work, you need to take this holistic view across the whole value chain, next few years. It's an exciting time base. It's kind of challenging as well.
and I think this echoes some of the points that Matthias was making. And
I think in the World Bank, we are guilty at some points of being in silos,
so my unit, we'd work on the financing side, and my urban colleagues
would work on the housing supply side. Now we systematically work
across the whole value chain, right from the land issues, raw materials
production, mining, timber, roof tiles, really looking at that sort of level
of detail through to the financing, and end user of finance, and then the
wholesale finance from capital markets. It's only when you put all of this
together that you get a working solution.

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