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From: The Milken Institute Review -
December 2004
We looked into what happens to a dollar of U.S. corporate spending
when a company moves a service job to India. We found that, far
from being a zero-sum game, offshoring is a story of mutual gain,
benefiting both countries.
The receiving economy (India) captures 33 cents, in the form of
wages paid to local workers, profits earned by local outsourcing
providers and their suppliers, and taxes collected from second-
and third-tier suppliers to the outsourcing companies.
But the gains to the U.S. economy are much larger. The most
obvious source of value is the cost savings enjoyed by U.S.
companies. Thus, far from being bad for the United States,
offshoring creates net value for the economy – to the tune of
$1.12 to $1.14 for every dollar that goes abroad.
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