Can outsourcing boost employment for low - skilled workers ? Eric Simonson

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  • Eric Simonson
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As the world has flattened, some forms of services have become easily traded across geographies, cultures, and cost structures. Many countries—most notably India and the Philippines— have accelerated their economic growth through thriving information technology (IT) and business process services exports. The outsourced1 market for global information technology and business process services is $660-690 billion in annual revenue. Of this market, approximately 20-25 percent is delivered as service exports from one country to another. In aggregate, the services exports market has been growing 10-15 percent per year for over a decade.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016