low-cost countries

Many economists believe it would simply shift part of the US trade deficit to other low-cost countries rather than helping US producers.

With these changes, it says, American manufacturers are looking for low-cost countries closer to home -- known as near shoring.

Siemens systematically uses low-cost countries for making components for products that are assembled in Europe or America.

This means forming effective partnerships with low-cost countries, and not seeing every new entrant as a primitive, blood- curdling threat.

An Indian outsourcer setting up shop in Europe seems counter to the trend of moving back office work to low-cost countries.

Row material and equipment sourcing experience in low cost countries. Negotiation and contracting experience.

But the opposite is more likely, he argues, as such firms continue to feel the full force of competition from low-cost countries.

The IMF partly blames oil prices (boosting US imports) and competition from low-cost countries (hurting US exports).

A "trilingual" speaks fluent English, a local language and the language of a profession. These are rare commodities in low cost countries.

Some blame the outsourcing of American factory jobs to rapidly industrializing low-cost countries such as China and India.

'We can see that more orders are flowing to the low-cost countries, ' Ms. Qi says.

The government says its stance is necessary to keep Singapore competitive against low-cost countries in the region.

The emergence of companies from low-cost countries such as India, China, Brazil, and Eastern Europe has transformed the playing field.

it wants to raise money to build new production sector in low-cost countries.

The downside of being so cosmopolitan is that European jobs may migrate to low-cost countries.

and the chance to outsource production to low-cost countries.

It is natural for labour-intensive jobs to go to low-cost countries, he says.