It is not a secret that the pandemic shook all the socioeconomic dimensions of Peru. As a result, we are witnessing how poverty has advanced and now subdues almost 10 million compatriots, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). What is the most serious symptom of the matter? The poorest Peruvians spent […]
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A falling dollar makes home prices more competitive
—How is the real estate market currently five months into this year 2023? —There are important challenges, there was an economic, macroeconomic situation that had an impact on this development, but despite this, growth is still maintained, let’s say, at a much slower speed, but it is expected to continue developing homes to be able […]
Tax reform: successful international seminar
With the purpose of describing the economic panorama given in Colombia, Chile and PeruLa República Webinar Live and CooperAcción successfully held the international seminar “Tax Reform: a global and Latin American discussion”. During the development of the event, the invited specialists spoke about the progressivity of the tax system in the mentioned countries, the expectations […]
Keys to salary recovery in Venezuela
The minimum wage in Venezuelalast increased to 130 bolivars in March 2022, when it was equivalent to 29.68 dollars, has been devalued by 82%, to reach the current 5.18 dollars, as a result of the inflationa situation that has prompted more than 2,000 labor protests this year, according to NGOs. This level of salary, the […]
Autopista El Sol has been paralyzed since 2018 and with 30% progress in La Libertad
Vía unites regions of La Libertad, Lambayeque and Piura, and will contribute to their growth. Destroyed tracks generate discomfort in the population of Chiclayo La Libertad: they demand pedestrian bridges to MTC for Virú and Chao The work on the Autopista del Sol has been paralyzed since 2018, despite the enormous economic potential it means […]
Price of the dollar in Peru: in which reliable portals can the value of this currency be checked?
The dollar exchange session on Monday, May 8, 2023, opened downward, standing at S/3.7073, a decline of -0.10%, compared to the close of last Friday, according to Bloomberg. However, at the same time, an unusual fact surprised thousands of users, who reported that in Google the exchange rate was —erroneously— at S/5.19, a figure for […]
Mypes can receive up to S/90,000 at affordable rates
99% of the companies in Peru are micro and small (mypes) and, therefore, are elementary in the economy since they provide more than 80% of employment nationwide, according to the INEI. And, despite its importance, the mypes have insured on more than one occasion that in programs such as Reactiva Peru or the FAE have […]
Business expectations do not rise and MEF asks to trust in the long term
The month of April has been a carbon copy of March in terms of problems, opportunities and hopes for recovery for businessmen. According to the latest Survey of Macroeconomic Expectations of April 2023, designed by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), the forecasts for the sector that moves the strings of the economy remained […]
Collection fell in April in a sign of cooling of the GDP
In April, S/16,532 million were collected in net tax revenue —discounting tax refunds—, according to Sunat. The figure shows a contraction of 26.8% compared to what was registered in the same month last year. In general terms, comparing what was captured in the first four-month period of both periods, there would be a threshold of […]
Tax reform as a global and Latin American challenge for economic justice
The tax reform is part of a global discussion in a context of economic crisis. He International Monetary Fundthe Group of 20 (G20), the European Central Bank, and several governments of America, like those of the US, Colombia, Brazil and Chile have been putting on the agenda the need for the most profitable companies and […]