Don't Tell Lou Dobbs

Thomas P.M. Barnett summarizes Suzanne Barlyn's article on outsourcing legal work to India:

We're looking at 29k legal jobs shipped abroad by the end of 2008 and maybe 80k by 2015. India is simply moving up the service ladder, just like China does on the manufacturing ladder. You go from call centers (lower-value business process outsourcing) to knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). Engineering and medicine comes under assault too, as these KPOs act more and more like "branch offices of U.S. companies."

India's advantages are clear: English speakers and a common law background.