http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=24747US not against outsourcing, wants opening of markets
Washington, June 23 (IANS) :
The US has made it clear it is
not against outsourcing of jobs to India and other countries, despite the outcry against it in certain sections of American society.Explaining the policy of the Bush administration on the issue, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca said it would however be helpful if India opens its markets to more goods and services to bring down
India-bashing here and help create jobs in the US and elsewhere.
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Faleomavaega said that jobs were headed towards India because it has a vast number of professional workers and is an English-speaking nation unlike China. "I have heard of so much India-bashing on the issue that I think it is unfair to say that some 100,000 jobs are outsourced when we're losing 2 million jobs for other reasons and not because of the outsourcing of these jobs," he said
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"Right now there are somewhere near
a million people who have overstayed those particular visas. Many came not because they were, as the category demands, 'uniquely qualified,' but
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"India is one of those countries where the
visa request is booming. We have an extremely high number of Indians coming to the US. And I will get more information for you on the specifics of L1 versus H1-B," She said.
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in a related story.. they say we will "get over it".. Where have we heard THAT line before???
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040622S0008 Meta Group: Critics Of Offshore Outsourcing Will Get Over It
June 22, 2004 (2:58 p.m. EST)
TechWeb News
Outrage over offshore outsourcing will largely disappear in a couple of years, a research and consulting firm has declared.
Indeed, along those lines, the line between the offshore outsourcing and domestic outsourcing is already blurring, META Group said
“The context in which 'offshore outsourcing' typically is used is completely misleading and simplistic,” META analyst Stan Lepeak wrote in a report released Tuesday. “For every company establishing offshore outsourcing relationships in India, there is a foreign company establishing offshore outsourcing relationships in the United States.”
“Offshore outsourcing represents a continuation of an ongoing economic evolution, and multiple perspectives -- not just laid-off workers -- must be considered when assessing its overall impact and value proposition,” wrote Lepeak, vice president of outsourcing and service provider strategies at the analyst firm.
The fury over offshore outsourcing will peak and then through acquisition and organic growth the line between the offshore outsourcing phenomenon and domestic outsourcing will blur and largely disappear by 2006/2007, Lepeak said.
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