Egyptian Outsourcing and Offshoring

Throughout the turmoil of present-day Egypt, the offshoring and outsourcing of jobs has inevitably pulled the Egyptian economy to great new heights.Being named the 2010 Offshoring Destination of the Year, the Egyptian economy has never looked so promising. Unfortunately, due to the spreading of jobs outside national borders and rising national unemployment, Egyptians has grown mixed feelings about the system. Run primarily by the private sector, outsourcing and offshoring of jobs have received extreme attacks from the Egyptian media which, not surprisingly biases the Egyptian public. One main reason for the success of the private sector then is that Egypt contains human resources that together “multilingual in 16 different languages” (Egypt’s ICT, Magued Osman). The pure lingual manpower therefore attribute to the success of the Egyptian private sector in many different countries worldwide. Altogether, the chairman of the European Outsourcing Association announced that “[Egypt] has proven itself to be both a strong player for European outsources and a gateway to the Middle East and Africa.” In essence, Egypt’s geographic nature and climate will amount to economic success. Besides oil, the Middle East and most of central to northern Africa does not do much prolific business with countries like China, Japan, Britain, or France. By opening up the Middle East in the international marketplace, Egypt will and has wreaked the rewards other nations had to offer. Therefore, if the current state of Egypt has resulted in varying perceptions and ideas about the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs, private organizations and corporations will continue to help the basis of the Egyptian economy which will give back to the Egyptian people over time through wealth, jobs, and culture.

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