# Prof. Paul Romer's "charter cities" concept is featured

1 Faculty News September 6, 2012 ![Guardian logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030939.jpg?itok=g7FgVwid)>

Excerpt from [The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/06/honduras-new-city-laws-investors?newsfeed=true) -- "Soon after [Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer) visited Tegucigalpa at the start of the year, the Honduran congress approved an enabling bill for the creation of economic development zones. Lobo has reportedly taken fact-finding delegations to Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai to look at possible models."

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