Will there be a charter city in Honduras?
Paul Romer hopes so, here is an update:
Much will depend on the transparency commission. The first batch of members appointed this week comprise George Akerlof, another economist and Nobel laureate; Nancy Birdsall, formerly at the Inter-American Development Bank, who now runs the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank; Ong Boon Hwee, a former senior executive at Temasek Holdings and Singapore Power; and Harry Strachan, an investor who used to run INCAE, a leading Latin American business school, with Mr Romer himself in the chair.
The article is interesting throughout, the pointer is from Michael Clemens.