Offshoring

Thursday 28th of March 2024

Offshoring A 2006 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that much administration of state government programs had been shifted offshore, including —in what seemed like a cruel joke— the processing of unemployment insurance claims. Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence © 2015 Kwiple.com
Offshoring Some firms recognise that outsourcing production to cheaper locations has eroded innovation, says Ludovico Alcorta at UNIDO [United Nations Industrial Development Organization]. When production is moved elsewhere, opportunities to learn how to do it do it better are often lost. The development of new products and processes can suffer, as can interactions with research organisations and universities. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Offshoring You can tell them to go fuck themselves. Donald Trump, on businesses that went offshore because, “we're the highest-taxed nation in the entire world,” which is false even for the top marginal corporate income tax rate © 2016 Kwiple.com