Ensuring India's offshoring future

India's lead in offshoring stems from its pool of well-trained, low-cost engineers for IT services.
That pool is smaller than it appears, and there's a risk that it may run dry in the most popular offshoring locations.
For offshoring companies, India's weak infrastructure is its least attractive feature.
India's policy makers must improve the quantity and quality of its graduates, strengthen its infrastructure, and disperse offshore demand for talent to second-tier cities and services other than IT.

Exhibit 1: Rising wages for IT project managers and programmers in India
Exhibit 2: Number of suitable graduates is not proportionate to size of population
Exhibit 3: Offshoring—beyond IT

Baiju Parthan
(detail)
Pigment ink print on aluminum composite
182.2 × 71 cm
2004

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