>And, if that's so, doesn't this suggest further that
>what's being created is not a self propelled engine of
>modernization and *growth* but a series of service
>enclaves, such as Bangalore, tailored to the
>requirements of businesses outside of India and
>providing zero value-add for the development of the
>Indian economy as a whole?
But aren't the Indian firms learning from the process? There's a lot of very skilled engineers in the country, designing gadgets and writing code. Given that talent base, isn't it likely that there's a significant amount of spillover into the domestic economy? It's not like the maquiladoras, which mostly involve assembly work with minimal spillovers.
Doug