After knowing the figures from the latest report from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) on monetary poverty in Peru, the head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), José Arista, blamed climate change and protests for the increase. of poverty, stating that “suddenly something could have been done.
According to data from the INEI, the official poverty figure in Peru would have gone from 27.5% to 29% in 2023, even being 8.8% more than in the pre-pandemic (2019). We are talking about more than 9.7 million Peruvians, and in rural areas it would have grown to 16.2%.
“When these climate catastrophes come, the government can do little about a hurricane, a drought, a shortage of anchovy in the sea or about the low productivity of our agricultural exports. Suddenly something could have been done, but also very little, in the case of avoiding highway crossings, for example,” declared Arista for Existosa Noticias.
Between 2022 and 2023, there are 596,000 Peruvians who fell into poverty and compared to the pre-pandemic year we would be talking about 3,290,000. Likewise, poverty in Metropolitan Lima and Callao would now be practically double that in 2019, comprising 28.7% of the population.
Source: Larepublica
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