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Offshore Outsourcing of High-Tech Services: How Far Does India Benefit From Its IT and ITES/BPO Outsourcing Industry?

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The existing literature on offshore outsourcing focuses almost exclusively on the extent of job losses in the home country, and the plight of the unemployed worker whose white-collar job has been outsourced.  The impact on recipient countries is rarely examined in the debate on offshore outsourcing.  This paper attempts to close this gap by examining … Read more

The Long Road to Becoming Taiwanese: History and Identity Formation on an Offshore Chinese Island/Nation

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As Taiwan was settled by waves of Han-Chinese from the Minnan speaking areas of Fujian and the Hakka-speaking areas of northern Guangdong, a sense of both local, regional and island – wide identity began to develop. By the 1870s, Taiwan had become a province of the Qing Empire, thus reinforcing the people’s sense of being … Read more