India-Ohio outsourcing ban: take-away from the Ohio Outsourcing Ban

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Recently, there has been considerable furore in India regarding Ohio's ban on outsourcing of IT and back-office work under government funded projects to locations such as India. This ban came following a discovery that the Texas-based firm Parago Inc., which was contracted by the Ohio Department of Development to administer a US $11 million federally funded energy-efficient appliance rebate program, had offshored the call handling and application processing work to El Salvador. Read more at: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/10/07/india-ohio-outsourcing-ban/

Publication Date

7-10-2010

Publication Title

East Asia Forum

Publisher

East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER)

Keywords

IT outsourcing, IT industry

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https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/10/07/india-ohio-outsourcing-ban/

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