Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Determinants of Fund Allocations Out of Housing Programs in the UAE

Determinants of Fund Allocations Out of Housing Programs in the UAE The government of UAE helps its nationals to own their private houses. One of the programs that are designed to achieve this goal is the Sheikh Zayed Housing Program SZHP. It pays grants and loans to nationals to have their own houses. This paper examines the factors that affect the fund allocation of SZHP. The researchers obtained the needed data from the offices of the SZHP. The sample consisted of 394 applicants for the year 2000. Regression models were used to assess the effect of family size, income, marital status and location of the applicants on fund allocation. The research findings show that income, family size and location have the most significant effect on fund allocation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences Emerald Publishing

Determinants of Fund Allocations Out of Housing Programs in the UAE

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/determinants-of-fund-allocations-out-of-housing-programs-in-the-uae-putABQg0BS

References (9)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1026-4116
DOI
10.1108/10264116200600002
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The government of UAE helps its nationals to own their private houses. One of the programs that are designed to achieve this goal is the Sheikh Zayed Housing Program SZHP. It pays grants and loans to nationals to have their own houses. This paper examines the factors that affect the fund allocation of SZHP. The researchers obtained the needed data from the offices of the SZHP. The sample consisted of 394 applicants for the year 2000. Regression models were used to assess the effect of family size, income, marital status and location of the applicants on fund allocation. The research findings show that income, family size and location have the most significant effect on fund allocation.

Journal

Journal of Economic and Administrative SciencesEmerald Publishing

Published: Jun 1, 2006

There are no references for this article.