Uruguay: Latin America's New Outsourcing Capital

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.

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September 26, 2006, 1:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Uruguay has leapt ahead of its neighbors by being the first to understand what can be done in todayâ€™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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Thanks to Larry Armstrong

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