Senior Fellow
Center on International Development and Governance
Dr. Sally Merrill, a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, is an economist specializing in housing and urban policy, housing finance, and housing microfinance. Since 1987, she has focused on international development in housing policy reform, low income housing policy, microfinance for housing and credit enhancement schemes for low and modest income lending. Prior to this, Dr. Merrill worked on U.S. housing and welfare analysis, including public housing, housing vouchers, and discrimination.
Email: SMerrill@urban.org
Areas of expertise
Housing Finance, Microfinance for Housing, Urban Development.
Country Experience:
Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines), in CAR and CEE (Poland, Romania, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia, and Mongolia), in North Africa (Egypt and Algeria), and in Sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana,) and Jamaica.
Selected Publications from Sally R. Merrill
Low Income Shelter Finance in Slum Upgrading Microfinance for Housing: Assisting the "Bottom Billion" and the "Missing Middle" Publications by topic:
International Development
Municipal and Intergovernmental Finance
Urban Development & the Environment
Housing and Land Markets
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