Published by the German Bishops' Conference Research Group on the Universal Tasks of the Church:

The extent of the poverty in many developing and transformation countries does not reduce the need of people who are unemployed in the industrialised countries, for instance here in Germany, who only find precarious employment, or who must survive as poor people in a rich country. One thing should however not be set off against the other. At the same time, there is a narrowing of the viewpoint in many debates in Germany and in other industrialised countries where heated debates are going on regarding relocations of jobs to poorer countries: These debates largely fail to note the impact had by the relocations on the respective target countries. It is however only possible to reach an ethically well-founded evaluation of offshoring activities if the remote effect of the phenomenon is included. The analyses and reflections of the present study are to be regarded as an invitation to supplement one's own view of the cross-border job relocations by this perspective.