Overseas outsourcing may have pricked a nerve among Western workers who fret about rising unemployment rates and the loss of jobs to foreign shores, but it has also helped drive economic growth into the double digits in countries like India and China. Emerging market economies like Morocco, identifying an opportunity to finally use “free trade” to their advantage, are making investment in outsourcing a pillar of economic development, hoping to pry a share of the sizable market away from the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Outsourcing to foreign countries allows companies to substantially reduce costs by paying less for qualified labor and in some cases receiving government subsidies. Pioneered by UK- and US-based businesses in the early 1990s, the practice of outsourcing is growing among French and Spanish-speaking markets, particularly in France, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland. As companies in Spanish and French-speaking countries keep increasing demand for outsourcing
