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Honduras Update 8 Sep 2012 | 04:23 am
Here at Charter Cities, we’ve received several requests for comment on recent press reports of an agreement with investors to develop the Honduran Special Development Regions (known as REDs, following...
The Guardian on Potential for External Appeal in Honduran RED 23 Jul 2012 | 11:30 pm
The Supreme Court of Mauritius recently agreed in principle to serve as a court of appeal for cases from special development regions in Honduras. The governments in Honduras and Mauritius believe that...
Steve Paikin Interviews Paul Romer on The Agenda 2 Jun 2012 | 01:05 am
In an interview for TVOntario’s current affairs program, The Agenda, Paul Romer discusses charter cities, the Honduran RED, and the potential role for countries like Canada.
The First Five Centuries are the Hardest 20 May 2012 | 07:20 am
In the 1960s, economic development experts spoke of the benefits from letting each country develop its own technology. By the 1980s, it was clear how foolish it was to ask each country to reinvent eac...
Adam Davidson on the Special Zone in Honduras 10 May 2012 | 09:51 am
How could Honduras, the original banana republic, reform a political and economic system that kept nearly two-thirds of its people in grim poverty? NPR’s global economics correspondent, Adam Davidson...
Crowley: New Directions for Canadian Development Assistance 7 May 2012 | 02:58 pm
Canadian development assistance should reflect the central role that cities will play in the growth and development of less developed regions – places where Canada can not only help to improve governa...
Jeremy Torobin on Charter Cities in The Globe and Mail 27 Apr 2012 | 11:26 am
Jeremy Torobin, economics correspondent for The Globe and Mail, has a column on the charter cities concept and the effort in Honduras to build a new city in an independent reform zone. Here’s an excer...
Charter Cities, Honduran REDs, and Canada 26 Apr 2012 | 07:13 am
Paul Romer and Octavio Sanchez, chief of staff to the President of Honduras, have an oped in this morning’s Globe & Mail. They describe Honduran efforts to establish a new reform zone and the ways in ...
