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What will be the impact of Sunday’s election on the software industry in Argentina?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Well, in my opinion, not much.

Throughout its recent history, Argentina has been characterized for big swings in economic policies which in turn have affected -positively or negatively- many sectors in the economy. Changing political parties, or even leadership within the major party in the country -the PJ-, have changed the “rules of the game” over and over again.

In the 90’s local manufacturing suffered extensively from an artificially overvalued currency. With the new millennium, and a cheaper currency, Argentina became competitive in many sectors once again. One of these sectors was the software industry.

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