Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future -2011/12

FDI Intelligence , a branch of Financial Times listed the Cities for the Future in Asia-Pacific based on factors like :

• Business friendliness
• Economic Potential
• Cost effectiveness
• Human resources
• Infrastructure
• Quality of living
• FDI Strategy

These cities were short listed from 141 cities across Asia-Pacific region and Singapore leads overall ranking.Below is the top 10 cities of the future:

In "Quality of living index"  Canberra, Australia tops the list followed by wellington, New Zealand. Singapore ranks 9 just above Gold Coast,Australia.Below is the top-10 cities based on quality of living: 

The judging panel consists of :

• James Ku, MD, Indev Partners
• Roy Melick, Partner and Chair,Asia-Pacific Structured real estate  group, Baker & McKenzie
• Anup Amprakash,Partner,Mercer
• Sanjay Verma,CEO,Asia-Pacific,Cushman&Wakefield
• Lawrenceyeo ,CEO&Pricipal Consultant,Asia BIZstrategy

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