# Prof. Paul Romer is featured for implementing his charter cities theory in Honduras

1 Faculty News May 8, 2012 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times Magazine](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/who-wants-to-buy-honduras.html?_r=1) -- "[Romer](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), who is expected to be chairman, is hoping to build a city that can accommodate 10 million people, which is 2 million more than the current population of Honduras. His charter city will have extremely open immigration policies to attract foreign workers from all over."

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](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/who-wants-to-buy-honduras.html?_r=1)Additional coverage appeared in [The New York Times 6th Floor](http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/can-one-economist-replicate-the-shenzhen-miracle/) blog, [NPR: Planet Money](http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/14/152669302/how-honduras-can-pull-off-five-centuries-of-legal-reforms-in-a-decade) and two [Next](http://americancity.org/daily/entry/interview-greg-lindsay-on-charter-cities-and-the-final-build-out-of-human-h) [American City](http://americancity.org/forefront/view/chartered-territory) pieces.