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Offshoring: opportunities and threats as services go global

Written by Dirk Willem te Velde

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'The offshoring of services from the richer industrial countries – by which services are relocated to other countries – can offer important opportunities to developing countries. But in order to realise these, they need to fight for export opportunities and counteract theprotectionist feelings towards offshoring of those living in advanced economies.'