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Since the labor is so much cheaper in India than it is in the United States, more and more software industries move their companies over seas. It is also very easy to transfer software from one continent onto another due to today's technology. India has a comparative advantage over software because they specialized in this field, they do not need many resources to make it and they get the people to do it. Because of this they can export their product to other countries and buy some other product which they do not make. The comparative advantage theory explains the rise of Indian software industry to the fullest, and it makes a lot of sense why they grew so much over the past decade.
Heckscher-Ohlin theory believes that the comparative advantage depends on the resources the country has; meaning land, labor, and capital. This is the extent to which Indian software industry goes. They have very good resources and mostly important they have a cheap labor. Engineers do get paid a lot......

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