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The purpose of this paper is to interpret the decision to choose a country to entrust its service providers with the software development activity. Based on transaction cost theory, the cost measurement waxes derived from this theory are used to compare two competing countries in the Offshore market: India and China. Salary, ICT, language, trust and economic and institutional stability are the points of differentiation on which this study is based. By using an exploratory and a comparative study based on secondary data from different statistical sources, the study confirms that according to the TCT, India remains a more appropriate choice than China for client firms seeking to outsource software development activity. This paper is completely original and proposes a new research component that links TCT predictions with the country chosen as a part of Offshore's strategy.

This article analyses the impact of oil price shocks on economic growth, unemployment, government revenue and government expenditure in Algeria using a Structural Vector Autoregressive methodology for the period 1970-2017.We use contemporaneous restriction and new technique to identify structural oil price shocks in Algeria. The estimation results show that the positive oil price shock are found to have relatively small (though positive) effect on economic growth. Dutch disease prevents the expected positive effects of positive oil shocks. In order to avoid the harmful effects of oil price fluctuations decision makers have to diversify economy and unlink government expenditure from oil revenues.