Meyer, Thomas (2007): India's specialisation in IT exports: Offshoring can't defy gravity. Published in: Deutsche Bank Research, Research Notes No. 27 (2007)
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Abstract
India’s actual export specialisation in IT services is unrivalled by any comparable country and it is evidence of a strong comparative advantage. This paper finds that India owes its IT specialisation in part to its reliance on offshoring - driven by the supply of well-educated, English-speaking and affordable workers - but also to a shift away from high-tech manufacturing exports. Going forward, India's specialisation on IT and other high-tech exports may decline as rising wages erode one of the reasons for offshoring.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Original Title: | India's specialisation in IT exports: Offshoring can't defy gravity |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | International trade, comparative advantage, offshoring, India |
| Subjects: | O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes F - International Economics > F1 - Trade F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance > F47 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications |
| Item ID: | 5780 |
| Depositing User: | Thomas Meyer |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2007 19:32 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2019 10:20 |
| URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/5780 |
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