New Cities With New Rules: The Rise of African Charter Cities

Kurtis Lockhart is Acting Executive Director and Head of Research at The Charter Cities Institute (CCI). We discuss New Cities With New Rules: The Rise of African Charter Cities.

Listen or watch to understand:

• About The Charter Cities Institute (CCI).
• What Charter Cities are and how the idea came about.
• The CCI model for Charter Cities and how if differers from the initial model of economist Paul Romer.
• Reforming institutions in a deep way that is necessary. 
• How we know that these cities will actually work.
• How Public Private Partnerships can make it work.
• Examples of Charter Cities. [Dubai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Singapore]
• How a Charter City is different from a special economic zone, free port or other special jurisdiction.
• How Charter Cities can help solve some major challenges that Africa is facing. [Legal, Financial, Technical Capacity]
• The disciplining affect and advantage of political competition.
• The biggest challenge and risk in creating charter cities in Africa.
• How this risk can be mitigated.
• Africa's Next 50 Cities Coalition (NXT50). A global initiative to support the development of new African cities.
• The possibilities and opportunities presented by the rapid growth of urbanisation in Africa.

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