1) Assuming labour costs and labour productivity are equally important in the profitability of a software development company, provide a brief report highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the ten candidate countries for outsourcing. Your report should include your top three and bottom three picks as a destination for outsourcing software development of your company.

Suppose you work for an US Software company. You have been asked to write a report on possible countries that might be suitable for outsourcing software development. To help you write your report, your team has collected data on labour productivity and average salary of software developers for ten candidate countries. The data is summarized in the table below. Average Annual Country Salary Labour Name in US dollars Productivit 6.100 61 48 000 28.000 65 -m 62 -a-r- 6? 81 -I 11 10 Ukraine 12,300 75 -s- Emu 15- 1E- 11 U.S.A. 90,000 9? The average salary of software developers in all countries have been converted into US dollars. Labour productivity is measured on a scale of 0-100 with 0 being the worst and 100 being the highest