IT Offshoring and India: Some Implications

Balatchandirane G.

No 86, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: There has been a large spurt in the offshore outsourcing of Information Technology (IT) recently. India has been a major recipient of such work. There have been loud protests against the "loss" of jobs in the US as work was shifted to India. The large inflow of IT related work has also had major impact on the Indian economy. There are implications on the foreign policy level as well. While the economic implications are well known, we try to see a little of the foreign policy implications in this paper.

Keywords: India; Information technology; Software; Offshoring; Foreign policy; インド; 情報技術; ソフトウェア; 外交政策 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L86 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-01-01
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