metropolitan areas like Dallas. On June 7, the Dallas Regional Chamber will convene a discussion of the region’s global position that will draw on some of our recent research for the Initiative. It’s along those lines that our own work at Brookings, as part of the joint Global Cities Initiative with JP Morgan Chase, aims to reveal the global nature and potential of U.S. To fuel their own economic growth, then, regions like Dallas must look increasingly to other parts of the globe-particularly rapidly growing urban areas-as sources of consumers, investment, and talented workers. The vast majority of growth in the global middle class in the next 20 years will occur in developing Asia and Latin America. As the nation slowly recovers from a run-up in debt during the last decade, it has become clear that the United States can no longer rely solely on its vast internal consumption market for economic growth. More and more of the world’s economic growth is occurring abroad, especially outside developed markets like Europe and Japan. These all-in-one indexes, however, tend to obscure why it is important for regions like Dallas to connect globally. Not surprisingly, the Dallas metropolis comes out in different places on different indexes: 25th ( Economist Intelligence Unit), 28th ( Global Urban Competitiveness Report), 36th (Brookings’ Global MetroMonitor), as an “Alpha-minus” city ( Globalization and World Cities Research Network), or not at all ( A.T. Different observers have different definitions of what it means to be “global.” Various studies attempt to index the global-ness of major metropolitan areas on measures that combine the presence of major global corporations, human capital, cultural institutions, environment, quality of life, and economic growth.
Move beyond size, however, and the global status of the Dallas area seems to be in the eye of the beholder. By virtue of size alone, Dallas appears to be a powerful force in the global marketplace. The region is the sixth largest metropolitan economy in the United States, and according to Brookings’ Global MetroMonitor, the 12th largest in the world.
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