Internet Spice Route
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This is a PPT on a chapter from The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith presented to the McGehee School economics' class in New Orleans.
Transcript of Internet Spice Route
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How India has developed into the technology center of the world today:
OFFSHORING: the new practice of moving white-collar work overseas.
OUTSOURCING:a company’s practice of farming out some of its work to another firm, whether that firm is in the same country or abroad.
Reasons behind
outsourcing &
offshoring:
THE Y2K SCARE
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU OUTSOURCED OUR JOBS TO THE SOUTH POLE?!
Our Outsourced World
INDIA
“One day this will all be outsourced.”
THE FLIPSIDE
“Rather than shipping exports over
bumpy roads to slow-moving seaports, they were able to send
exports over computer wires, telephone lines, and satellite links” (89).
• Silk Road• Changes: Job shift• Internet—Y2K• Offshoring• Differences between India and China
– Economic position compared to China• Difference between poor and middle class• Less factories than in China• Who is benefitting from this new information• Globalization
Works Cited
Meredith, Robyn. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
