According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for … a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public … Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic foundations. He argues that outsourcing is a central element of …

This study investigates the impact of international outsourcing to low? and high income countries on total factor … international outsourcing of material inputs to low income countries is significantly negatively related to productivity growth …. Furthermore, while the narrow measure of international outsourcing of materials is not significant, purchased services from abroad …