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The article reports on eastern Europe's software industry boom. Foreign firms are surging into Romania and the Ukraine, attracted by cheap, skilled, multilingual computer programmers. But with their salaries rising, Romanian programmers may soon be unaffordable for Western firms. As a result, one Bu...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 382; no. 8518; p. 72
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/3/2007
Subjects:
Computer programmers
Computer software industry
Contracting out
Labor costs
Multilingualism
Public-private sector cooperation
Education policy
Economic history
Eastern Europe
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