Offshore outsourcing: global trends and opportunities for North African countries (*).

From: Communications & Strategies | Date: November 30, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract: The rise of the global offshoring business, a high-growth, technologically-advanced, and sometimes labour intensive market, holds major opportunities for North African and European countries. It presents a match between developed countries' demand for services and developing markets' desire to improve their trade balance (by increasing exports), boost economic growth (by generating wealth and reducing unemployment) and intensify technological transfer (by enhancing specialized skills and growing the number of different types of services supplied). An even more important ...

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