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Global Cities 101

10 September, 2010 - 03:40

Foreign Policy has just published its Global Cities Index, based on 5 dimensions:

  • Business activity: "the value of its capital markets, the number of Fortune Global 500 firms headquartered there, and the volume of the goods that pass through the city"
  • Human capital: "how well the city acts as a magnet for diverse groups of people and talent. This includes the size of a city's immigrant population, the quality of the universities, the number of international schools, and the percentage of residents with university degrees"

  • Information exchange: "how well news and information is dispersed about and to the rest of the world. The number of international news bureaus, the level of censorship, the amount of international news in the leading local papers, and[...]

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