Offshoring

Offshoring
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'Bestshoring' Beats Outsourcing by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Offshoring, active movement of companies to offshore centres
Offshore financial centre, jurisdictions which transact financial business with non-residents
Offshore investment, relates to the wider financial services industry in offshore centres ...

Offshoring
Movement to a location in another country of some part of a firm's activity, usually a part of its production process or, frequently, various back office functions.
Ohlin definition
The price definition of factor abundance.

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Nevertheless, while offshoring can bring many benefits, the use of overseas external service providers entails some risks, as several financial institutions have found to their cost.

Labor unions have used this argument to justify protection from imports originating in low-wage countries, and there has been much political and media debate about the implications of offshoring of service sector jobs for national employment.

Big firms have outsourced a growing amount of their business since the early 1990s, including increasingly offshoring work to cheaper employees at firms in countries such as India.

See also: Outsourcing, Smith, Capital markets, Acquisitions, Mergers