The first ranking of BRICS+ cities — leaders in development by the concentration of their population’s potential

Overview

BRICS countries and the states aspiring to join this union focus on rapid development, leveraging their population size and quality.

The City Human Potential Ranking (CHPR) evaluates the cities – leaders in development within these countries based on the criteria significant for concentrating and harnessing the potential of their populations as the foundation for their socio-economic development.

The City Human Potential Ranking (CHPR) evaluates the cities – leaders in development within these countries based on the criteria significant for concentrating and harnessing the potential of their populations as the foundation for their socio-economic development.

Purpose

However, the authors wish for the CHPR to be more than just an analytical tool. We hope it will raise awareness of cities’ administrations of the necessity to invest more in the human capital and become a call to action to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all in the spirit of UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Education 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
CHPR was coined as a tool for mayors and city administrations to monitor, review and adapt their human capital policies to meet the challenges of the modernity and future through implementation of the «lifelong learning (LLL)» concept. In other words, CHPR helps identify the gaps in human capital management and overcome them.

Approach

The formation and expansion of large cities and urban agglomerations along with the rising concentration of human potential are one of the key determinants of the socio-economic processes and development trends.
The proposed methodological approach allows to assess the level of concentration of population’s potential in cities and to evaluate how the human potential is formed and realized through cities’ institutional and infrastructural capacities.

CHPR is based on two complementary dimensions of analysis

City for the people

Evaluating the opportunities provided by the urban institutions for the development and realization of population’s potential.

People for the city
City for the people

People for the city

Evaluating the quality and prospects for the development of population’s potential.

People for the city
City for the people

Through this prism, the three categories are analyzed that include the following groups of indicators, centered around the “potential of the population” concept (PoP)

Education

  • PoP concentration in education
  • PoP concentration in the lifelong learning system
  • Diversification of PoP concentration in the education system
  • Special “PoP concentrations” in the education system

Labor Market

  • General PoP concentration in the labor market
  • Diversification of PoP concentration in the labor market
  • Special “PoP concentrations” in the labor market

Technologies

  • General PoP concentration in the digital infrastructure
  • General PoP concentration in the use of digital technologies

Team

CHPR is developed by an international working group of researchers from 8 universities of the world (Mexico, India, Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Philippines) coordinated by Universidad Panamericana (Mexico)

Omar Guillermo Rojas Altamirano
Professor, Department of Economic Studies, Panamerican University, Guadalajara, Mexico
Anoj Raj
Head of the Department of Education, Education College Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, India
María Dolores del Río
Associate Professor, University Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Guillermo Sosa Gómez
Professor (Full) at Panamerican University, Guadalajara, Mexico
Miguel Angel Esquivias Padilla
Research Professor, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Magdalena Alejandra Gaete Sepulveda
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Laboratory for Reputation Management in Education, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg, Russia
Hazri Jamil
Director, National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains, Malaysia
Amy Yeo Chu May
Associate Professor, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Maria Socorro L. Romabiles
Assosiate Professor, Department of Management, Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines

Results

On January 18, 2024 the final report of the City Human Potential Ranking was published.

Top-10

  1. 1. MoscowRussia
  2. 2. Hong KongChina
  3. 3. ShanghaiChina
  4. 4. Mexico CityMexico
  5. 5. GuangzhouChina
  6. 6. Kuala LumpurMalaysia
  7. 7. Buenos AiresArgentina
  8. 8. GuadalajaraMexico
  9. 9. Quezon CityPhilippines
  10. 10.Abu DhabiUAE

The next edition of CHPR will be published in December 2024.