Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Uruguay also made strides this year. We found much to praise about a program handing out free laptops to every child there, which promises to enhance technological literacy and proliferate access to information, thereby helping lift these children out of poverty...
Wrong. It's the other way around: Chile is more developed because it's doing things right. The same goes for Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica and a handful of other Latin American and Caribbean nations that have decided in the 21st century to stop running their societies like medieval fiefdoms. They've conceded that niceties like rule of law, accountability, education, entrepreneurial opportunity and administrative efficiency actually have merit. And they've stopped making worn-out excuses, like the threats of communism or U.S. imperialism, for not modernizing their political and economic systems. (See TIME's complete coverage...
...these hurdles are steadily being overcome. Since opening its first emerging-markets operations centers in China and Uruguay in 2002, TCS's annual revenues from Latin America, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region have surged from $160 million to $1.2 billion, or about 20% of total sales. "The investments we've made in emerging markets have all reached a critical size," says TCS's Chandrasekaran. TCS discovered that its expansion has opened up new opportunities to lure business from international clients. After struggling to convince Spanish companies to outsource to India, TCS found them much more comfortable outsourcing...