Like its neighbour Thailand, Malaysia has a pretty respectable record when it comes to social housing.

For historical reasons, the international investment community is well acquainted with South Africa. The political turmoil of the early 1990s gave birth to Nelson Mandela’s ‘Rainbow Nation’ and the promise of a brighter future after decades of apartheid.

Greece’s reputation has been battered in recent years. The trauma dealt by the global financial crisis shook policy makers in Athens, with stimulus packages met with both incredulity and opposition. Bailouts pitted Greek stakeholders against Northern European creditors- the former claiming colonialism and the latter, profligacy.

In 1973 the Thai government replaced its under-performing and badly organised social housing system with the new National Housing Authority (NHA).

When people think of Argentina, they may not think of urban slums, houses without drinking water or malnourished children living well below the poverty line.