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Outsourcing has a bad name - a way of cutting labour costs by employing people in India and China (over three million US jobs will be lost to this trend by 2015). But there's also a growing move for nations to outsource everything from their military to postal services that, properly harnessed, could raise standards and redefine what makes a country. This is who we would employ.
Photographer: James Ellerker Writer: Johnny Davis
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