China isn’t the world’s most ferocious new economic competitor—the exploding eastcoast
corridor, from Beijing to Shanghai, is. India as a whole is not developing hightech
industries and attracting jobs, but the booming mega-region stretching from
Bangalore to Hyderabad is. Across the world, in fact, nations don’t spur growth so
much as dynamic regions—modern versions of the original “megalopolis,” a term
coined by the geographer Jean Gottman to identify the sprawling Boston–New York–
Washington economic power corridor in the United States.