[lbo-talk] offshoring vs technical visas, was: IT, Other White Collar Jobs FloatingTo Cheaper Locales

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Wed Jul 2 08:15:30 PDT 2003


Tom Roche wrote:


> Compared to this, offshoring is a relatively minor problem;

India's software industry is small by global standards. Exports in fiscal 02-03 were about $10 bn. Exports to US were about $ 6-7 bn. These figures include billing for onshore work.Press reports indicate that the global software market was about $ 450 bn in 2000. So India's market share is a tiny fraction of global market. Even if Indian software industry continues to grow at current rates (annual growth of 25%), exports would be $40-50 bn by 2010, still a small share of global market.

I don't understand why there is this scare about job losses in the US.

Ulhas



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