How would hosting a Free City benefit developing countries?
Third world governments that genuinely want economic growth and democracy are always looking for closer ties to the U.S. It’s difficult to overstate the value to developing countries of attracting the sustained attention and assistance of the U.S. Government. “The Mouse That Roared” makes this point. A Free City Development Program would allow the U.S. to choose where and when to make such commitments, without requiring a war to trigger them. The resulting jobs and globalization would transform the economies of the host countries and raise the standard of living of all its citizens, in or out of the Cities. People trapped in disconnected, thuggish regimes would be able to see that peaceful change in social contract is possible because America’s Free City Program would offer them and their country a credible way out of their poverty and despair. The challenge for most third world countries is to jump-start a globalized, non-governmental private sector that can attract foreign direct inv
