The regions of Peru register slow growth in competitivenessmeasured through five pillars: Economy, Government, Infrastructure, Companies and People, according to the latest edition of the Regional Competitiveness Index of Peru (ICRP) 2023, prepared by Centrum PUCP.
According to the research, most regions continue to register a low level of competitiveness. In this edition, Metropolitan Lima leads the ranking with a score of 62.3, on a scale of 0 to 100 points, 2.2 points more than the previous year and placing itself within a low-medium level of competitiveness.
They follow her Moquegua (47), Callao (44.6), Arequipa (42.4) e Ica (38.6), maintaining their positions compared to the previous year, but with higher scores. It is worth highlighting the growth of Moquegua and Callaowith increases of 5.7 and 6.4 points respectively.
On the other hand, the regions that occupy the last positions are: Cajamarca, Amazonas, Ucayali, Huánuco and Huancavelicawhere only Amazon and Huanuco they grew 0.5 and 0.2 points, respectively; while the others decreased.
The variations in the results, both positive and negative, indicate a trend of recovery to pre-pandemic levels in the regions, in some faster than others, as is the case of Tumbes (which goes from 23.6 to 29.1 points).
Likewise, this year’s results show that there is a wider difference between the scores of the regions that occupy the first and last positions. Between Metropolitan Lima (first place) and Moquegua (second place) there is a difference of 15.4 points, and with Callao (third place) the distance widens by 17.8 points.
According to the analyzes carried out at the ICRP, the slow recovery of the mountain and jungle regions is due to poor performance in indicators that belong to the pillars of economy, infrastructure and people, such as Gross Domestic Product, Economically Active Population, Network Infrastructure road, among others.
Likewise, variables such as social conflicts have had a greater influence on the slowdown in the growth of regional competitiveness. It is evident that the regions that managed to restore their levels of competitiveness were precisely those that faced the lowest incidence of social conflicts.
Source: Larepublica
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