In India and China, together 40 percent of the world’s population, the changes have been eye-popping. In the 30 years from 1982 to 2012, India’s poverty rate dropped from 60 percent of the population to 22 percent. Life expectancy surged from 49 years to 66. When I was growing up, India was the country of Mother Teresa and famine. Today it is a country increasingly defined by technology, global services, and a fast-growing middle class.
