The economist Alan Blinder has said that Americans should choose careers that cannot be moved offshore, concentrating on jobs that require one to be in the same city as one's work. There are many that believe America's growing inequality will create service jobs to serve the growing ranks of the rich in America -- high-end closet designers, personal trainers, hairdressers and florists or even doctors who will make house calls for an additional fee, one of which are likely to be moved offshore.

Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys (co-chairman, board of directors), who has persuaded many American companies to move thousands of jobs to India, agrees with Blinder. He says that Americans should look at careers that cannot be delivered over a wire, that if someone is a cardiac surgeon, he is going not to be displaced. But an American radiologist could be replaced by somebody from Bangalore who will check x-rays over a wire.

Nilekani also rightly says that Americans will have to focus on education and that will help the American workforce meet the challenge (of losing jobs) with customary American ingenuity. The education investment is a must for Americans to prosper in the newly internationalized economy, he argues. He points out that the capacity of the US to constantly reinvent itself is really extraordinary.

America is the world's largest, strongest, most resilient economy by a good measure. Americans must embrace that and walk tall into the ways of a new world shaped by the rise of India and China. They should look at this unprecedented rise and use it a catalyst to reestablish American competitiveness.

Let it be this generation's space race, a competition that inspires Americans to work harder.

You have written that if inward-facing India and Communist China can transform themselves and face the world, so can the United States of America. America has thousands of the brightest Indians from some of India's most elite schools. How can they continue to use their expertise better to transform America?

America will be lucky if Indians stay in the US. At the moment, the US has not been welcoming immigrants. That is America's loss. There are so many opportunities now in India that many non-resident Indians are moving back from the US and Europe to India -- sometimes after decades abroad!

Salaries in India can be higher for professionals than they are in the US, and the quality of life is often much better in India now. Today, well-educated Indians have so many choices. Indians can finally find prosperity and opportunity both at home and abroad.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/sep/12sld9.htm

OMG!!!

LOL!!!

Is this article a joke???

It is wrong on SOOOOOOoooo many levels...

im not interested majority of indians are going back ........ our country needs us we r the educated and we have to help our country to get and implement a one child policy now is the time ..........

america needs no one .......... they never needed anyone ......... they need to get their act together and boycott chinese goods while they still have time otherwise it will be too late .........

One child policy in India? That's never going to happen. Besides one-child policy is not an answer, its a disaster. Ppl voluntarily having few children is the best answer, and it is already working in urban areas, its in the rural places gov't should focus.

There is no reason to boycott chinese goods, it will end up hurting US.

dont talk nonsense if china can do it so can we ............. anyway it is already in the talks we r going to implement the one child policy .......... we r the educated people and whatever we say is law simple as that .......... it was exactly the way ccp did it they enforced it on the rest of the population .......... say whatever u want to say but the one child policy is coming through ......... i am not interested in being the breeders of the world ........ if anyone else wants that title they can gladly have it .........

china would definitely not want to see india adopt a one child policy because then there would be true development in india ........ china will do all they can to spread false reports ..............

U must be deluded to think One Child policy will be implemented. It WILL NEVER HAPPEN! The forced sterilization during Emergency has made sure that it won't happen. And what do u mean it will be Enforced? It's a democracy, ppl will throw out the government. You fail to realize that in India, the masses run the damn gov't. The politicians WANT to keep their seats, not lose it! The moment any gov't is Bold (mostly stupid) enough to bring such a legislation, it would be thrown out.

Are u even Indian? You sport a dharm chakra, but no sane Indian will propose One Child Policy, knowing very well it wouldn't be feasible. If you are Indian, you are seriously out of touch with ground realities.

India will prosper, and that too without One Child policy. China is becoming an old country already, one child policy is a disaster, and India certainly doesn't need one.

continue the discussion in the india section .............

u have put some crap reasons ....... u have absolutely no idea what u r talking about ..........

i am definite that u r not an indian ........... i can find u at random a million indians who want the one child policy immediately implemented .......... i am sure that u r some sort of china sympathiser ....... no way u r indian with the way u r trying to discourage the one child policy for no good reason ............. i am sending u the link as well which shows that the one child policy is being considered .........

we can continue in the india chat .............

It's true. It's true. the_falcon is an Indian nationalist.

More like a Chinese posing as an Indian Nationalist. Regardless of what he is, there is no way India is going to implement One Child Policy.

I will side with @kkdkckrl in this, he is right that one child policy is a bad idea and never going to get implemented in India. What India really need is education, awarness and empowerment of women, and steps should be taken to implement these things with earnest. Only then population problem could be tackled in a right manner. God should give our politicians some good sense.

And why you brought China into this? It has no relevence here.

I'm pretty sure this Falcon guy in Chinese. In all of his posts, he tries too hard to put china down. And of course, brings china to every post of his, even if it is irrelevant.

My assessment is that he is a Chinese guy, posing as an Indian Nationalist. Nothing wrong with being Chinese, in fact I am taking Mandarin classes

hahahahah ............... u fool if i was chinese why would i put china down ?? ............. hahahah .......... anyway can the mods transfer this to the india chat ......... i would like to contiue the discussion over there ........

taking mandaring classes ......... yea right .......... who the hell is chinese over here dude ........ U R !! .....

Because you're pretending to be an Indian who puts down Chinese so you can give moviez and his multiple accounts an excuse to troll India[n] Chat?

That was gonna be my reply as well

One child policy was genocide and a disaster. Stopping stupid people from breeding is OK in an emergency as long as you aren't brutal about it, but limiting people in the city and Han Chinese specifically is evil.

I think kkdkckrl is anti-Chinese and hence blames everything on Chinese.

Read my post and his posts properly, @kkdkckrl had posted nothing against China.

Yes but he hates Chinese and hence he comes up with the following statement with no proof :

We are going off topic but, can u point anything anti-chinese I posted in the quote below? Are u saying me learning mandarin is anti-chinese?

Why are u defending "the falcon" ? although not explicitly, but u r defending falcon here! I mean he is after all an Indian Nationalist!

LOL.

I am not defending the_falcon but I am shocked that you just assume that he is "chinese" without proof.

anything evil is "Chinese" ?