Buried within a massive spending bill lawmakers approved on Saturday is a provision to set aside $2 million to study the “impacts of offshoring on the economy and work force of the United States.”

The professor says that as of today, importation of labor through the visa process is a much bigger problem than offshore job exportation.

Recent examples of failed offshore outsourcing have made headlines and become hotly debated among opponents and supporters of outsourcing. Typically, there are a number of contributing factors that cumulatively result in a project being abandoned or failing to meet its intended goals and objectives. Offshore outsourcing projects are no different and can fail for many of the same reasons, but offshore outsourcing projects are vulnerable to additional risks.

Welcoming the re-election of US President George W Bush, a strong proponent of outsourcing, India’s software industry is bullish that American firms would be much bolder to assert their gains by outsourcing more IT and BPO work to India.