Building Africa: The Golden Stool (Exploring the Old Ashanti Kingdom)
The second entry in our Building Africa blog series on pre-colonial urban development in Africa.
June 11, 2020
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Real-time analysis of charter cities and related topics.
In Honduras, the National Congress unanimously repealed the constitutional amendment and enabling law for charter cities, known as Zonas de Empleo de Desarrollo Económico (Zones for Employment and Economic Development) or ZEDEs. Now we take a deeper look at what happened in Honduras, and what comes next.
The second entry in our Building Africa blog series on pre-colonial urban development in Africa.
The first entry in a series of blog posts on pre-colonial urban development in Africa.
Can Nollywood learn about agglomeration effects from Hollywood?
It’s probably close to zero.
Congratulations to 2020 John Bates Clark Medalist Melissa Dell! The institutional economics literature plays an outsized role in the work we do at the Charter Cities Institute.
Are ports a better development bet than RCTs? It’s an open question.
Charter cities have much in common with this widely-used project financing model.
Strong institutions are necessary to weather negative economic shocks and support long-run growth.
A closer look at the steps a successful charter city might take in the face of a pandemic.
Regulatory reform matters for charter cities, not tax incentives.
Charter cities would follow the Asian Tigers, not the West.
Among the four mega-trends to watch in the 2020s: startup cities. Learn about this and more with our charter cities roundup.
Countries struggling with economic development face two critical challenges to overcome when trying to introduce substantive reforms— the logic of collective action and institutional sclerosis. These ideas were developed by
Newsletter Links: December 2019 If you haven’t yet, don’t forget to register for our first Charter Cities Conference on March 17-18 in Johannesburg, South Africa! Today we’re also proud to release our 2019
We’re proud to release our 2019 Annual Report.
The findings indicate that political decentralization in Kenya succeeded in bringing state institutions ‘closer to the people’ and away from the biased hands of the president.
Charter cities offer residents in emerging economies something they rarely get: a choice of where and under which institutions to live.
Charter Cities Institute Newsletter Links: November 2019 This blog post comes directly from the charter cities monthly newsletter, which you can sign up for here. If you haven’t
Executive Director Mark Lutter parses the distinction between large real estate projects and viable cities.
A call for academic papers ahead of the inaugural Charter Cities Conference on March 17-18, 2020.
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