India Seeks to Codify the Rules on Outsourcing
By Anand Giridharadas, International Herald Tribune, December 19, 2005
It may be the gravest challenge mounted by developing economies against the developed, but it will languish on the periphery of this week's trade talks in Hong Kong, silenced by the fury over fruits and vegetables.
The phenomenon answers to many names, from "outsourcing" to "offshoring" to "BPO." It is "global sourcing" in the euphemistic parlance of corporate chieftains, and "delocalization" in the blunter phrasing of the French. Regardless of what you call it, it threatens to transform where, and how, much of the world's work is done.
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