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Coronavirus in Peru: unions ask to encourage vaccination before more curfews

Coronavirus in Peru: unions ask to encourage vaccination before more curfews

The Foreign Trade Society (Comex Peru) He asked the Government to re-evaluate the curfew plan and, instead, speed up vaccination with an emphasis on the third dose, in addition to overseeing compliance with protocols for gauging, distancing and use of a mask. According to a study by Apoyo Consultoría, prepared at the request of Comex, […]

The voices of the sectors hardest hit in the second year of the pandemic

The voices of the sectors hardest hit in the second year of the pandemic

Complicated situation, but with optimism Angel Urpeque. gastronomic entrepreneur 2021 was a very fought year. The main difficulties of the business were related to the pandemic, the political noise and the fear of the people; factors that made us the most affected of all areas. Added to this is the rise in input prices. What […]

Confidence shock and quality employment for 2022

Confidence shock and quality employment for 2022

Restore business confidence Jorge Zapata, Capeco Construction has always been a key sector in the economic recovery. In Peru it is essential to continue betting on its growth, since it creates many jobs. 2021 was a positive year with an estimated growth of 35% compared to 2020. However, 2020 is not a good benchmark, and […]

Some 4,000 companies will pay less taxes

Some 4,000 companies will pay less taxes

The Executive Power yesterday approved in the Council of Ministers six legislative decrees in tax matter. This as part of the delegation of powers granted by Congress. Within these measures, which would be made official today in the official newspaper El Peruano, They highlight the tax benefits that will be given to companies in the […]

Decent and tireless work: the faces behind the reactivation of Ayacucho

Decent and tireless work: the faces behind the reactivation of Ayacucho

Ayacucho welcomes us with genuine excitement. The sky of Huamanga clears and a vast blue sheet with gray bubbles on the outside emerges. Clear sign that the rain and thunder will take time to catch up with us after we arrive. It is my first visit to the land of altarpieces and spicy puca. It […]

Michael Spence: “Peru’s GDP growth is respectable”

Michael Spence: “Peru’s GDP growth is respectable”

After the Peruvian economy contracted by 11.1% during 2020, the Nobel Prize for Economics Michael Spence affirmed that the projections made regarding the recovery are optimal. “The decreasing trend could have been perhaps flatter –in comparison to the sharpened contraction in Peru compared to other neighboring countries–, but we see that the projected growth for […]

Uncertain prospects, by Alonso Segura

Uncertain prospects, by Alonso Segura

2022 is presented as a very uncertain year in economic matters. We run the risk of wasting tremendously favorable external conditions. After a terrible 2020 for Peru, both in public health and in economic and social indicators, 2021 has been a year of faster recovery than initially expected. Understanding the reason for this dynamic is […]

45.2% of new financial clients are mypes

45.2% of new financial clients are mypes

In the context of a pandemic, mypes were the most impacted by the closure of activities at the beginning of the health emergency and subsequent restrictions. Given this, the Government ordered measures to facilitate their access to capital to be able to reactivate, such as the Reactiva Peru, FAE-Mype, PAE-Mype programs. Thus, between March 2020 […]

The 2022 agenda for strong economic growth

The 2022 agenda for strong economic growth

With little more than a month until the end of 2021, specialists indicate what are the challenges that the current Government has in the face of economic recovery. In the forum ‘Resilient Peru: Challenges and Potentialities’, organized by Make Peru, the economist Alfonso de la Torre, the director of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru […]

South Peruvian economy flies low according to IPE report

South Peruvian economy flies low according to IPE report

With contribution from the IPE Despite the fact that some indicators indicate that the national economic activity is normalizing, the economy of the south of the country, in the first half of 2021, contracted by 3.3%. This report corresponds to an analysis carried out by the Peruvian Institute of Economics (Ipe) in the regions of […]