Malaysia - 3rd Most Attractive Global Outsourcing Location: A.T. Kearney

BusinessWeek this week profiled the latest A.T. Kearney list of the top 50 global offshore outsourcing locations.  India leads the list as expected. 

Meanwhile, 10 out of the 50 are OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) based locations with Malaysia identified as the third most attractive market for Offshore outsourcing.  Other major OIC based markets on the list include Indonesia , Egypt , Jordan , UAE, Tunisia and Pakistan.

The ranking uses financial attractiveness, people capability, and environment attractiveness (infarstructure/ political stability etc) as its criteria.  However, it gives a 40% weight to the financial attractiveness of a country.  The article highlights that Pakistan , for instance, is even more financially attractive than India .

Another reference to OIC locations in the article:

"Some emerging countries may not appeal to U.S. companies as outsourcing destinations but may find markets in other parts of the world. For instance, the appeal of Pakistan 's IT workforce of 90,000 people has been overshadowed by post-September 11 security concerns. "It's fallen off the radar screen of U.S. buyers," says Frances Karamouzis, vice-president for research at Gartner. Other analysts say there is still a market for Pakistan 's services in the Middle East . And countries such as Senegal and Morocco are becoming attractive places for French-language call-center outsourcing for Francophone Europe."

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