Offshoring

Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Typically this refers to a company business, although state governments may also employ offshoring. More recently, technical and administrative services have been offshored. Offshoring and outsourcing are not mutually inclusive: there can be one without the other. They can be intertwined (offshore outsourcing), and can be individually or jointly, partially or completely reversed, involving terms such as reshoring, inshoring, and insourcing. Offshoring is when the offshored work is done by means of an internal (captive) …

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World Bank Group · 8 April 2024 English

Jamaica’s progress in digital transformation is paving the way for a foundational change in how the economy and society operate and create value. This report serves as input to guide …

including remote work and study, e-commerce, online offshoring and outsourc- ing, application-based activities


TAPRI: The Australian Population Research Institute · 6 April 2024 English

In Australia the main political beneficiaries from the cost-of-living and housing crises are the parties on the left, particularly the Greens. [...] The right-leaning parties that have challenged aspects of …

globalisation is linked to job losses due to offshoring or import competition. These parties are not


UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 3 April 2024 English

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly becoming Small Island Digital States. Digital is positively impacting lives and livelihoods across SIDS – improving the reach and effectiveness of government and …

industries (including fintech and ICT-driven offshoring opportunities). ● Exploring innovative regulatory


Public Citizen · 1 April 2024 English

Those rules authorize the Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague to designate an “appointing authority” who—absent agreement by the parties—can select the sole arbitrator (or, in …

in favor of large corporations, incentivizing offshoring and undermining the sovereignty of the United contemplate future agreements. …ISDS subsidizes offshoring by lowering the risk premium of relocating. Instead factor in the cost of risk insurance when making offshoring decisions, they rely on ISDS to require governments


Eurofound · 28 March 2024 English

Employment levels in the EU27 recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2021 much faster than they did after the global financial crisis in 2008–2010. This was despite …

generally have to be carried out in person. Offshoring them or performing them remotely is often not


CEDLAS: Centre De Studios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales · 26 March 2024 English

Figure 1 depicts the unconditional correlation between the change in poverty rate (FGT0) and the change in exports between 2000 and 2006 at the level of Chilean local labor markets …

Exposure to trade with China; (iv) Exposure to offshoring; and (v) Exposure to routine task content of imports and exports to China (column 4), and offshoring (column 5). The exposures in columns 4 and 5 initial industry-level imports, exports and the offshoring index of Feenstra and Hanson (1999), using the Yes Yes Yes Trade with China - - - Yes Yes Yes Offshoring - - - - Yes Yes Routinization - - - - - Yes Notes and exports (Column 4 and onwards); exposure to offshoring (Columns 5 and 6); and exposure to routine task


Chatham House · 26 March 2024 English

The dependence of Global North countries on water-intensive imported goods – such as food, textiles and minerals – is driving water insecurity in less developed parts of the world. At …

operations to less regulated or cheaper countries (offshoring), which would mean that global pollution stays


CEDLAS: Centre De Studios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales · 26 March 2024

Figure 1 depicts the unconditional correlation between the change in poverty rate (FGT0) and the change in exports between 2000 and 2006 at the level of Chilean local labor markets …

Exposure to trade with China; (iv) Exposure to offshoring; and (v) Exposure to routine task content of imports and exports to China (column 4), and offshoring (column 5). The exposures in columns 4 and 5 initial industry-level imports, exports and the offshoring index of Feenstra and Hanson (1999), using the Yes Yes Yes Trade with China - - - Yes Yes Yes Offshoring - - - - Yes Yes Routinization - - - - - Yes Notes and exports (Column 4 and onwards); exposure to offshoring (Columns 5 and 6); and exposure to routine task


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 22 March 2024 English

We study the inflationary impacts of pandemic lockdown shocks and fiscal and monetary stimulus during 2020-2022 using a novel harmonized dataset of sectoral producer price inflation and input-output linkages for …

Jakob Munch, and Chong Xiang. The wage effects of offshoring: Evidence from danish matched worker-firm data


RAND Corporation · 20 March 2024 English

The authors developed a research agenda to understand how defense supply chains can better withstand unanticipated and highly impactful disruptions whose probability and impact cannot be readily calculated or quantified. …

chains’ exposure to potential adver- saries (e.g., offshoring/ally-shoring)? What are the limits of such collaboration


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