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Nov 11th 2004
From The Economist print edition

For a young topic, outsourcing has produced a huge volume of research, not all of it worthwhile. Here is a sprinkling of some of the better stuff:

From the McKinsey Global Institute

“Offshoring: Is It a Win-Win Game?”, August 2003

“New Horizons: Multinational Company Investment in Developing Economies”, October 2003

“Can Germany Win from Offshoring?”, Diana Farrell, July 2004

“Exploding the Myths of Offshoring”, Martin Baily and Diana Farrell, July 2004

From the Boston Consulting Group

“China: The Pursuit of Competitive Advantage and Profitable Growth”, July 2003

“Capturing Global Advantage”, April 2004

“The New Wave of Outsourcing”, Ashok Deo Bardham and Cynthia Kroll, University of California at Berkeley, Fisher Centre for Real Estate and Urban Economics Research Report, Fall 2003

“Globalisation of IT Services and White Collar Jobs: The Next Wave of Productivity Growth”, Catherine Mann, Institute for International Economics, December 2003

From The Brookings Institute

“Offshoring Service Jobs: Bane or Boon - and What to Do?”, Lael Brainard and Robert Litan, April 2004

“Offshoring, Import Competition, and the Jobless Recovery”, Charles Schultze, August 2004

“The Outsourcing Bogeyman”, Daniel Drezner, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004

“Hardheaded Optimism About Globalisation”, Amar Bhide, Columbia University, forthcoming

From the Bureau of Labour Statistics

“Occupational Employment Projections to 2012”, Daniel Hecker, Monthly Labour Review, February 2004

“The 1988-2000 Employment Projections: How Accurate Were They?”, by Andrew Alpert and Jill Auyer, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2003

From Forrester

“3.3m US Services Jobs To Go Offshore”, John McCarthy, November 2002

“Low-Cost Global Delivery Model Showdown”, John McCarthy, August 2044

“Two Speed Europe: Why 1 Million Jobs Will Move Offshore”, Andrew Parker, August 2004

I also recommend the excellent “Men and Machines”, by Stuart Chase, The MacMillan Company, 1929. The questions raised by outsourcing have been with us a very long time.