Most "Productive" Cities In The World?

Based on a just released Brooking Institution report and this CNBC report. To be exact, they are comparing per-capita GDP and changes in employment data from 2010 to 2011 among the 200 largest metropolitan areas of the world.

Please download the full report here (5MB) , it's very good.

These are the metro areas that surprised me in a nice way: Hartford and Buffalo. Both cities are a little bit run-down. But I guess the surrounding wealthy towns more than make up for it.

Didn't know Chinese political powerhouse Beijing is almost at the bottom (187/200) still. Indian outsourcing capital of the world Mumbai is second to the bottom, and Cairo, knowing it's poor, is at the very bottom?

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