New Land of Opportunity

For society as a whole, the benefits of making developing-world cities livable are enormous because those cities can offer a pathway out of poverty for billions.

So writes Edward Glaeser in an article in Forbes Magazine. He begins with the statistic

If you are alive today, there is a one-in-eight chance that you are living in a slum in the developing world, desperately--often successfully--trying to improve your lot.

...read Glaeser's article and learn why he is optimistc about large cities being the new land of opportunity. Don't miss page 3, which gives short stories about urban micropreneurs around the world who have migrated to large cities.