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Armenia's Soviet past laid the groundwork for its burgeoning tech revolution, but can it avoid the pitfalls of neoliberalism moving forward?
Armenia is one of the leading centres for software development in the world as well as a regional hub for chip design, not to mention networking systems and communications. In 2017, the turnover of the ICT sector accounted for approximately 7 per cent of GDP.