most powerful cities
22 November 2009: New York City, London, Paris and Tokyo are deemed to be the most powerful cities in the world.
As people increasingly move into cities, the worldâs major economic zones are concentrating around a few, mega-powerful metropolitan zones. (We could call them the 1% of cities.) These cities each engage in fierce competition to attract foreign and local investment and grow their economies. Find out where the worldâs economic power lies in our list of the 25 most financially powerful cities in the world. Moscow. The capital of Russia and indisputably one of the worldâs most financially powerful cities, Moscow is home to the highest amount of the worldâs billionaires and to Gazprom, the worldâs largest natural gas exporter.