FORBES Magazine: "Per Capita Income from IT-Services Export in Belarus Equals that of India and Heavily Exceeds that of Russia"

6 August 2009

As the FORBES Magazine points out if we speak about per capita income from of IT-services export, Belarus shares the same category group with India heavily outscoring Russia. It is also emphasized that Belarusian companies are among the largest offshore programming service providers in Eastern Europe.

The country is famous for its strong computer programming school. It is Belarus which hosts the think tanks of the two largest software development companies of the four located in Eastern Europe.

More often the West views Belarus as one of the hubs of the world offshore programming. The volume of offshore programming services in Belarus in per-capita equivalent exceeds twofold that of Russia and threefold that of Ukraine. The majority of large IT-companies in Belarus are export-oriented.