Uruguay

Uruguay is geographically at the centre of a market inhabited by more than 215 million consumers, with the highest per capita income in the continent, and a GDP of US$ 600 billion. MERCOSUR has its best “gateway” in Uruguay, greatly enhanced with the conditions that the MERCOSUR agreement has created for the development of trade and business among the members of the block.

Easy access to that large market (specially to the core of business in the region, situated in a 1.500 km. radius area), and to other regions and countries in the world is assured by an extensive and varied communications network, together with strongly competitive financial and business support services.

Uruguay qualifies as an ideal platform from where business opportunities are launched to the region and the world, based on its economic and political stability, along with an open and cosmopolitan society.

Uruguay is a country where the human dimension of its society remains intact. Comparable to those of the developed world, the social indicators show the educational and intellectual foundations of its population. From the outset, since it became an independent nation, economic activity in Uruguay has developed around the perfect symbiosis of two pillars: the abundance of its natural resources and the work of its people, most of which were European immigrants.

The high level of training of the workforce explains the ease with which Uruguayans can adapt to the use of new technologies in productive processes, and it also accounts for the development of new technological tools to be applied in businesses. The result of all this is a continuous increase in productivity. At present, one out of every three workers has completed vocational and/or university studies.

The capacity of the Uruguayan people has always been the leading comparative advantages of the country. This quality is especially well known among strategic decision-makers working for Uruguayan and foreign companies.

Extracted from:http://www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy/exportaciones_ing/exportaciones-porque_uruguay_ing/default.aspx