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Khanna: Tech and telecom firms will spend $4 trillion on infrastructure by 2020
“These telecom and technology and kind of, you know, data industry companies invest about, you know, it's estimated that between now and twenty-twenty, let alone all the trillions that have been spent so far, will spend another four trillion dollars just on the…”
Khanna: Philippines surpassed India in call center workers and revenues
“The Philippines now has more workers and more revenues from call centers than India does because they physically made a plan.”
Khanna: Special economic zones generate 50% of Central American GDP
“50% of the GDP of Central American countries is derived from the manufacturing and textile exports that are produced in those zones.”
Khanna: 25% of China's GDP derives from special economic zones
“It's like 25% of China's GDP still comes from the exports generated in the special economic zone.”
Khanna: Reverse pipelines supply Russian gas to Ukraine via Western Europe
“The target country for Russia is of course, Ukraine. But now that Russia has built so many, is building so many new pipelines to Europe that circumvent Ukraine, Europe is building what are called reverse pipelines that take the gas that goes from Russia to Ger…”
Khanna: Africa is the fastest-growing international market for Indian telecom giants
“Tata, again, Tata, Reliance, all of these Indian telecommunications companies, where's their biggest growing footprint besides their home market? It's Africa.”
Khanna: US gig workers now outnumber manufacturing workers by millions
“We're at the point now where there are more people, Surviving in the sharing economy, you know, so as, you know, part-time workers, digital workforce, gigonomists, whatever term you want to use, you know, freelancers as a whole, some estimate 30 to forty milli…”
Khanna: Average Facebook user's international friends rose to 15-16%
“If you look at the number of, for example, international friends that people have on Facebook, it used to be only, you know, four or five percent of an average person's friends were from another country, and now it's risen to like 15 or 16%.”
Khanna: Top 300 cities represent most of global economic output
“The sort of top 300 cities in the world represent most of the world economy.”
Khanna: Global special economic zones grew from a couple to 4,000
“In, in 50 years ago, there were only a couple of special economic zones in the world. Today we have 4000 of them.”
Khanna: Countries with most special economic zones grow fastest
“And that's why, you know, the Philippines and India and Vietnam, these countries that have the most such special economic zones are among the fastest growing countries in the world.”
Khanna: Global infrastructure includes 2M km of pipelines and 4M km of railways
“Today, we have about two million kilometers of them, right? Not to mention the four million kilometers of railways.”