{"id":1996,"date":"2012-01-18T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:32:35","slug":"for-economic-performance-in-2011-atlanta-ranks-near-the-bottom-of-list-of-200-world-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/18\/for-economic-performance-in-2011-atlanta-ranks-near-the-bottom-of-list-of-200-world-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"For economic performance in 2011, Atlanta ranks 189 on list of 200 world metro areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the AJC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/atlantas-global-economic-standing-1306374.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta&#8217;s global economic standing: #189<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Atlanta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c primarily its employment and income gains over the last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c were so anemic that the city came in at No. 189 in the think tank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s list of top 200 global performers.<\/strong> Atlanta shares a particularly d\u00c3\u00a9class\u00c3\u00a9 neighborhood filled with the likes of Richmond (No. 191), Madrid (195) and Athens (200).<\/p>\n<p>Still, Brookings discovered that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the most rapidly growing metropolitan economies lie outside the U.S. and Western Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in its report released Wednesday. The 200 cities represent 14 percent of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population, but half its economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Large, mature metro economies like Tokyo, New York, and London still have a lot of firepower, but high-performance metros like Shanghai, Istanbul, and Santiago continued to close the gap last year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Emilia Istrate, a senior research analyst at Brookings. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To succeed, slower-growing metro areas must strengthen their relationships with these rising metro markets.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A 4-minute video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/reports\/2012\/0118_global_metro_monitor.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings <\/a>talking about the methodology:<br \/>\n<object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><center><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1389367447001&#038;playerID=626960761001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAF8iFxhE~,SybXroYHxkaN6FKT7iaq3b6GN4MOf4xI&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/Files\/rc\/reports\/2012\/0118_global_metro_monitor\/0118_global_metro_monitor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the full report<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/18\/for-economic-performance-in-2011-atlanta-ranks-near-the-bottom-of-list-of-200-world-cities\/screenshot_17\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1997\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/18\/for-economic-performance-in-2011-atlanta-ranks-near-the-bottom-of-list-of-200-world-cities\/screenshot_17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screenshot_17-e1326918282897.png?fit=670%2C703\" data-orig-size=\"670,703\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot_17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screenshot_17-e1326918282897.png?fit=285%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screenshot_17-e1326918282897.png?fit=594%2C623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screenshot_17-e1326918282897.png?resize=594%2C623\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot_17\" width=\"594\" height=\"623\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1997\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t think we should make TOO much of this, but this ranking should be alarming and at the same time unsurprising. The Georgia economy as a whole is largely dependent on the health of metro Atlanta, which has lost jobs over the last year and has seen plummeting home prices in the most recent data. Many of the problems stem in part from poor decisions by state government, which has never in my time in Georgia recognized the importance of metro Atlanta&#8217;s health to the overall economic climate of the state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AJC&#8217;s Atlanta&#8217;s global economic standing: #189: Atlanta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c primarily its employment and income gains over the last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c were so anemic that the city came in at No. 189 in the think tank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s list of top&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/18\/for-economic-performance-in-2011-atlanta-ranks-near-the-bottom-of-list-of-200-world-cities\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[84,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screenshot_17-e1326918282897.png?fit=670%2C703","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}