You can read my two cents in this article run by CIOPakistan during Nov, 2008.

Outsource or Inhouse

November 21, 2008 

What role does cost play in the decision to choose one strategy over the other?
Here’s the situation so far: there is a global economic crisis for which companies need to cut costs; the US elections are taking place later this month, which will help to determine a formal stance of US companies on outsourcing and offshoring; Pakistan is going through its own set of challenges and the global sentiment to work with the country or companies in it, isn’t all that positive.