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Urban world Cities and the rise of the consuming class [electronic resource]

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London McKinsey & Company 2012Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Executive summary -- The global economic balance is shifting to emerging cities -- Expanding urban economies are creating waves of new consumers -- Growing emerging market cities will require investment, capital, and resources -- The science - and art - of business strategy in emerging cities -- The policy agenda differs in emerging and developed regions -- Appendinx: Technical notes -- Bibliography
Summary: Focuses on the economic power of cities, the huge expansion of urban consuming classes, and the implication of the consumer demand for the construction of new residential and commercial buildings, port capacity to meet rising volumes of container shipping as demand fuels trade in goods, and municipal water. In this research, McKinsey Global Institute expanded and updated the MGI Cityscope database of cities. This allows them to offer insights into the evolution of the urban world and its demographics, household structure and incomes. Cityscope 2.0 includes 253 more cities, to bring the total covered to 2,657, and incorporates the latest economic and demographic data, including data available from China's 2010 and India's 2011 census. They have also added estimates of new metrics against which to view cities' contribution to activity and growth in different sectors.
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Executive summary -- The global economic balance is shifting to emerging cities -- Expanding urban economies are creating waves of new consumers -- Growing emerging market cities will require investment, capital, and resources -- The science - and art - of business strategy in emerging cities -- The policy agenda differs in emerging and developed regions -- Appendinx: Technical notes -- Bibliography

Focuses on the economic power of cities, the huge expansion of urban consuming classes, and the implication of the consumer demand for the construction of new residential and commercial buildings, port capacity to meet rising volumes of container shipping as demand fuels trade in goods, and municipal water. In this research, McKinsey Global Institute expanded and updated the MGI Cityscope database of cities. This allows them to offer insights into the evolution of the urban world and its demographics, household structure and incomes. Cityscope 2.0 includes 253 more cities, to bring the total covered to 2,657, and incorporates the latest economic and demographic data, including data available from China's 2010 and India's 2011 census. They have also added estimates of new metrics against which to view cities' contribution to activity and growth in different sectors.