misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 08 2007 | india, globalization, Migrant Labor, Kerala
Quoted: This verdant swath of southern Indian coastline is a famously good place to be poor. People in the state of Kerala live nearly as long as Americans do, on a sliver of the income. They read at nearly the same rates.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | IIT, business, India, globalization
Quoted: Select US corporate giants — long viewed as symbols of America’s military-industry complex — have run into an unlikely hurdle in their plans to recruit and research at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 25 2007 | India, software, globalization, business, outsourcing
Quoted: Infosys says its outsourcing experience in India has taught it to carve up a project, apportion each slice to suitable workers, double-check quality and then export a final, reassembled product to clients... argues it can clone its Indian back offices in other nations and groom Chinese, Mexican or Czech employees to be more productive than local outsourcing companies could make them.
Quoted:In a poetic reflection of outsourcing’s new face, Wipro’s chairman said that he was considering hubs in Idaho and Virginia, in addition to Georgia, to take advantage of American “states which are less developed.”
ShareViewed: 4 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2007 | India, software, business, globalization, politics
Quoted: They have hired a former official in the Bush administration as a lobbyist. They are humanizing the issue by bringing Americans they have hired into meetings with politicians.
Quoted: And, most striking, they have mastered the Washington art of waging proxy battles through local organizations, which allows them to not appear to be foreigners with an agenda
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