Political unrest and economic trouble versus offshore outsourcing
The recent bomb attack on Mumbai, killing at least ten people and wounding more than fifty, is one in a series. According to Wikipedia are “as of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts afflicted, at differing intensities, by various insurgent and terrorist movements. In August 2008, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said that there are as many as 800 terrorist cells operating in the country”. While India is not the only outsourcing destination which suffers from ‘political’ unrest, are this bomb attack and the 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks of 2008 of a completely different order than what is going on in most other countries (except for maybe Pakistan). Also Egypt had its period of unrest when toppling over president Mubarak, and Malaysia recently caught the headlines with people demanding democratic reforms. And the Ministry of foreign affairs of Australia “advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in the Philippines because of the high thr