1. When countries increased their level of globalisation by 1 percent the rate of GDP growth rose by about 0.10-15%, a material figure.
2. The value of cross-border goods flows between emerging markets increased from 6 percent of all global trade in 1990 to 24 percent in 2012.
3. Digital platforms can cut the cost of exporting by 83 percent as compared with traditional export channels.
4. The impact of foreign entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley is legendary: from 2006 to 2012, immigrants founded over 40 percent of all high-tech and engineering start-ups there.
5. Singapore has the world’s highest density of regional head offices relative to GDP: more than half of all large foreign subsidiaries in emerging Asia outside China are located.
6. Global e-commerce sales reached over $1.2 trillion in 2013, nearly 2 percent of global GDP.
7. The number of Fortune Global 500 companies with headquarters in developed economies will fall to less than 55 percent by 2025, from almost 75 percent in 2013.
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