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Prof. Paul Romer is featured for his idea to create charter cities in developing countries

Excerpt from Development Asia Magazine -- "'Instead of focusing on poor nations and how to change their rules, we should focus on poor people and how they can move somewhere with better rules,' [Romer] wrote in 2009. 'One way to do this is with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of new 'charter cities,' where developed countries frame the rules and hundreds of millions of poor families could become residents.'"

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Additional coverage appeared in Asia Sentinel.