Archive for August, 2009
Chile’s Silicon Valley
BusinessWeek The information technology industry is constructing a new research and development hub for software: Santiago, Chile. The Latin American capital has the attributes that have made emerging markets attractive to outsourcers, such as cheap wages; dependable, state-of-the-art infrastructure; and government incentives. While Chile’s small labor force will hinder its rise, the country also boasts [...]
Good Outlook for Brazil, LatAm
Latin Business Chronicle A survey by Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) business school and Germany’s Institute for Economic Research Institute (Ifo) shows that the economic outlook for Latin America in the coming six months is good. The Economic Climate Index (ECI) for July 2009 shows that Latin America is entering the recovery phase of the [...]
Northern India’s Vanishing Water
Add this to the potential causes for water wars. More reasons to consider agriculture outsourcing in Latin America to hedge risk as crop areas in Punjab shrink as a result.via Science Daily Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 [...]
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