Discussions surrounding offshore delivery locations and where they should be situated quickly boil down to debating the relative merits of India and China. The major progress on the back of capital investments, inflows, and export successes these countries have received over the past decade has placed them on the radar of any prospective offshore delivery location investor. This focus has increased in the past two years, given the two countries’ apparent insulation from the economic storm that impacted the rest of the world.
This report assesses some of the key factors that have put these two countries in their current positions. It considers what is driving their apparently insatiable growth as delivery locations, discusses some of the main players active in these markets, analyzes their comparative strengths and weaknesses, and examines possible futures and areas of opportunity.