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[Economist's View] The Financial Times says reports of the death of manufacturing in developed countries are greatly exaggerated:
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[Danieldrezner.com] danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: outsourcing Archives: Because if you look at Frauenheim's story about the ITAA report, you find the following sentence: "ITAA said nearly 89 percent of new jobs came from non-IT companies, despite popular fears over mass job loss to outsourcing and globalization." If one really believes that offshore outsourcing is responsible for massive job losses in the IT sector, that last figure is a puzzling one -- because the line that management consultants continually push is that offshore outsourcing is great for firms that don't specialize in IT services and want to subcontract those operations to the lowest-cost provider out there.
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