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Uruguay: Latin America's New Outsourcing Capital

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Larry Armstrong
26 September 2006 - 1:00pm

With a population of only three million, Uruguay has rapidly become Latin America's outsourcing hub. In partnership with one of India's largest technology consulting firms, engineers in Montevideo work while their counterparts in Mumbai sleep.

"Uruguay has leapt ahead of its neighbors by being the first to understand what can be done in today’s increasingly flat world.... A tiny country of three million people, wedged between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay has come from nowhere to partner with India's bidggest technology company... to create in just four years on of the largest outsrouring operations in Latin America."

... "By creating an outsouring center in Montevideo, Tata could offer its clients it best Indian engieers during India's day (America's night) and its best Uruguayan engineers during America's day (India's night)."

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Source: The New York Times, September 22, 2006
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