The prestigious British financial magazine fDi Magazine compiled a rating of "European cities and regions of the future 2018/19"Published by The Financial Times.
FDi experts compared almost 500 European cities and regions in terms of their economic potential, labor market, economic efficiency, infrastructure and the presence of a business-friendly environment. “The rating of European cities and regions of the future fdi 2018/19 seeks to find the most promising cities and regions throughout Europe, and not just those that belong to the EU,” writes fDi.
The rating serves as a barometer of the attractiveness of many cities and regions, from Russia to Ireland and from Finland to Greece. The cities included in the fDi selection, for the most part, are actively moving forward for domestic investment.
Moscow took several places in the fDi list at once.
- She was in sixth position among all the evaluated cities in Europe.
- And among the Eastern European megacities, the Russian capital is the undisputed leader, surpassing the Polish, Romanian and Czech capitals.
- According to such a criterion as the standard of living and the volume of human capital, Moscow is on the second line, losing to London.
- In addition, fDi experts placed the Mother See in fifth place among European cities most friendly to entrepreneurship.
Here is a complete list of the best European cities of the future 2018-19.
To create a list of European cities and regions of the future, fDi experts collected data using specialized tools for foreign direct investment - fDi Benchmark and fDi Markets, as well as other sources.
Cities were evaluated by a hundred parameters, which included:
- GDP of cities;
- how accessible is the internet;
- how affordable office rental is;
- how many citizens have higher education;
- what is the life expectancy of citizens, etc.
It is not the first year that Russia as a whole and its individual cities have been ranked in terms of living standards and infrastructure development. For example, in the latest ranking of countries in the world in terms of living, our country took 26th place.
