The Local Impact of Globalization in South and Southeast Asia

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or `offshored¿ from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world. Most of these jobs so far have landed in South and South-East Asia, with India and the Philippines receiving the bulk of them. This has caused profound changes in the international division of labour, and has had correspondingly wide social and economic effects.