What is the best country to set up an offshore company?
Gartner used ten criteria that it determined important for organisations to consider when looking at a potential location for offshore or nearshore IT or business process services. They were: language, government support, labour pool, infrastructure, educational system, cost, political and economic environment, cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity, and data and intellectual property security and privacy. Gartner’s top 30 locations for offshore services, by region, were: Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and Uruguay Asia/Pacific: Australia, China, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine “While these 30 countries demonstrated their suitability to develop or enhance their offshore service credentials, another 35 countri