ABSTRACT
The South Asian region is home to a large number of megacities as well as half the world’s poor population. If world city ranking was based solely on population and growth rates of population, then South Asian cities would emerge on top, but this is not true for a ranking based on integration into the world city network: limited presence of global service industry firms indicates a region of relatively low global competitiveness. Hence despite the large population, there are only 12 cities that qualify for discussion below by having global network connectivities above 0.1.
