Precariousness. Women work in worse conditions than men. Unemployment level grew 30% in the capital. According to him INEIin January of this year there are 5 million 93,700 citizens with a job, 1.1% more than what was seen between November, December (2019) and January 2020, a couple of months before the outbreak of the pandemic. […]
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INEI: Peruvian economy grew less than expected: 2.68% during 2022
National production rose just 0.86% in December, its lowest level since February 2021. Fisheries, telecommunications, and the financial sector closed the year negatively. The Peruvian economy registered only a variation of 2.68% during 2022, according to INEI, thus growing less than expected by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), which expected the GDP to […]
GDP is slowing down due to protests, BCRP and IMF agree
Wake up call. International organization reduced growth estimate to 2.4% and asks the Government resolve the political crisis. While the issuing entity warns that the greatest negative impact is being observed in the southern regions. A loss of US$600 million is estimated due to the entry of fewer tourists. Since December of last year, Peru […]
Saki Bigio: “I think we are very far from being one of the most unequal countries in the world”
Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work focuses on the theoretical and quantitative link between financial market liquidity, credit, payment systems and macroeconomics. On Monday, February 6, La República published the report “Peru is the fourth most unequal country in the world”, according to the Latinometrics analysis based on the […]
Labor informality in Peru reaches 75%
Disparity. Our country has the second highest rate in Latin America, according to the ILO. In the region, one in two employed persons is informal. A study by the International Labor Organization (ILO) determined that the labor informality in Peru it passed the 70% threshold. Although this reading for the second quarter of 2022, which […]
INEI: Fishing and internal consumption of cement closed 2022 with losses
On the other hand, the mining and hydrocarbons sector registered a variation of 0.35% in its production indicators. During 2022, fishing production —which includes maritime and inland fishing— fell 13.74%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) after accumulating seven months in total with negative figures. Specifically in December, the fishing sector […]
Peruvian economy hits the brakes and grew 1.68% during November
After growing 2.01% in October, during November 2022, the national production of Peru slowed down and only rose by 1.68% compared to the same month of the previous year, as reported by the INEI. The result seen in the eleventh month of the year is explained by the good performance of sectors such as lodging […]
More than 2 million people from Lima subsist thanks to precarious employment
During the last quarter of 2022, the employed population in Metropolitan Lima totaled 5 million 84,600 people, a figure that implies an increase of 1.4% compared to the same period in 2019. However, there is a setback in the adequate employment indicators, since there are only 2,999,400 citizens in this sector, 9.4% less than in […]
Inflation: which products increased their prices the most in Metropolitan Lima during 2022?
The annualized inflation of Metropolitan Lima closed 2022 at 8.46%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). In addition, during the last month of 2022, December, the National Consumer Price Index rose by 0.66%, while the Metropolitan Lima Consumer Price Index increased by 0.79%. The annual advance was led, mainly, by the […]
Inflation closes 2022 with 8.46% in Metropolitan Lima, the highest rate in 26 years
In 2022, the Consumer Price Index of Metropolitan Lima, an indicator that measures inflation, increased by 8.46%, the highest rate recorded in the last 26 years. In 1996 it reached 11.84% and in the previous year it reached a rate of 6.43%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). Above all, the […]