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International development experts share their ideas on how wealthy countries can promote prosperity in developing countries. Follow at cgdev.org/cgd-podcast.

Apr 26, 2010

The planet's population will swell by two to three billion people over the next few decades. Where will all those people live? My guest on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast has a bold new idea. Paul Romer is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a non-resident fellow here at the Center for Global Development, and one of the world’s leading growth economists. He is proposing brand new cities—he calls them 'charter cities'—built from the ground up with sound rules designed to promote swift development.

Read a full summary on the Wonkcast site: http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/