The Affordable Housing Market in India

Padmini Ram is Assistant Professor, School of Business Studies and Social Sciences, Christ University, Bengaluru, India and Principal Investigator, CLARE, an industry-academia collaboration working on informal economy. With over 17 years of experience in various sectors of public policy and development, in India and abroad, she combines the rigour of an academic researcher and the pragmatic approach of a practitioner. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and her research papers have been published in several reputed international journals.Malcolm Harper is Emeritus Professor of Enterprise Development, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard and Nairobi. Since 1995 he has worked independently, mainly in India. He has published extensively on enterprise development, micro-finance and livelihoods. He was Chairman of Basix Finance in India for ten years and is Chairman of M-CRIL/EDA of New Delhi, the international microfinance and social rating company. He is chair, trustee and board member of various institutions in UK, the Netherlands, the USA and India, and has worked on issues of poverty across the world.