Assessing Brazil's offshoring prospects

McKinsey Quarterly

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 7-9

  Farrell, Diana ^a   Jain, Roshni ^c   Pietracci, Bruno ^b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b McKinsey's Rio de Janeiro Office   (Brazil)

^c NONE

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EID: 34047117702     PISSN: 00475394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. In addition to Brazil, the low-wage countries we studied include Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, and Russia. The full report, The Emerging Global Labor Market, Part II-The Supply of Offshore Talent in Services, is available free of charge online at www.mckinsey.com/mgi.
2. According to IDC, a market research company, revenues from IT services in Brazil totaled $6 billion in 2005. But only about $300 million in IT services were exported during that year, according to Brazil IT, an association of Brazilian IT providers.
3. MGI conducted a survey of 83 human-resources executives at multinational companies operating in low-wage countries.
4. The number of Brazilians receiving bachelor's degrees is growing by around 9 percent a year.