The rewards flow to those that offer the best business environment, high-quality infrastructure and the right mix of skills.
Everything we know about economic growth says that a well-educated population and high-quality infrastructure are crucial.
But the city feels safe, boasts some world-class attractions, and has high-quality infrastructure, much of it from the 2004 Olympics.
With its hundreds of foreign companies and, by India's standards, high-quality infrastructure to support them, "everything has come" to Hyderabad, he says.
Instead, Britain urgently needs sufficient public and private investment to deliver high-quality infrastructure, millions of new houses, high skills and the cutting-edge technology to sustain a competitive, productive economy.
Instead what is urgently needed is sufficient public and private investment to establish the high-quality infrastructure, the millions of new houses, the high skills and cutting-edge technology to sustain a competitive productive economy.
The policy reinforces the idea that the government is responsible for providing high-quality infrastructure – pavements, cycle lanes and the like – to serve the country's non-motorised transport (NMT) users.
There are 35,000 hectares of green belt within the London boroughs and a further 65,000 hectares within the M25, much of it unappealing and unused scrubland that could be turned into housing developments with country parks and high-quality infrastructure.
On the contrary, government should be highly active, sustaining economic stability and intervening in partnership with business to invest in education, train the workforce and create high-quality infrastructure.
We are lucky enough to live at a time in which a furious wave of innovation is breaking across the cities of the global south, spurred on both by the blistering pace of urbanisation, and by the rising popular demand for access to high-quality infrastructure that follows in its wake.
Alison Johnstone, Scottish Green MSP and co-convenor of the cross party group on cycling, said: I'm disappointed that the new transport minister hasn't managed to keep cycling and walking funding going up and that Scots continue to miss out on the high-quality infrastructure that other countries enjoy.
