American economist, Paul Romer (2010) in Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities said that the poverty in global south is caused by the inability of developing countries to choose the right rule for its people. Therefore, he believed that the main task to combat global poverty is to help developing countries find and implement new rules that could work better than the one they have now. To do this, Romer proposed an idea to make new cities in the developing countries so that people can create new rules without having to go through a long process of consultation and agreement amongst the people that might be affected by a change. The city will be composed of citizen which would be mostly coming from developing country …show more content…
He only measured Shenzhen’s success from evidences that China has adopted the rules in Shenzhen as permanent policies then spread it to the rest of China. So here, I may say there is a big political risk for developing countries if they want to implement the Charter City as it is. Furthermore, I agree with Huntington (2000) saying that being modern means being able to think for ourselves. Thus, if the cities, either in Shenzhen or Hong Kong model, are only possible when developed country or the international community takes the initiative in their establishment, so how could we give chance to people in developing countries to be modern through these Charter Cities? For this, I have to agree with Sagar (2015) who said that eventually there will always be intersection between Charter Cities and trusteeships. 4.