Businesses Follow Passage to India

Augusta Chronicle, The (April 27, 2004)

Author: Dale Mcfeatters< Guest Columnist

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Summary

For years, the United States has been preaching the virtues of free trade and open markets to India, and do you know what those treacherous and ungrateful sods did? They listened!

Now India has a booming growth rate of 8 percent. And thanks to free trade, open markets and instantaneous telecommunications, Indians are now doing jobs Americans once did, only cheaper and often faster.

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Businesses Follow Passage to India

The phenomenon is called "outsourcing." Such services as reading X-rays, computer tech support, billing and customer service once done here are now done there. And many Americans are plenty angry ab...

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