Our Work

Empowering new cities with better governance to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.

We're Building the Ecosystem for Charter Cities

The Charter Cities Institute believes charter cities — new cities granted a special jurisdiction to create a new governance system — can help accelerate economic growth in developing countries and lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.

What is a charter city?

What We Do

Convening

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