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 […]
Tag: Inequality
INEI: 1 in 3 Peruvians is at risk of falling into poverty
The monetary poverty in Peru it went from 25.9% in 2021 to 27.5% at the end of 2022, increasing by 1.6 percentage points from one period to another. Thus, a total of 9 million 184,000 Peruvians are considered poor, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). In addition, within […]
Luis López-Calva: “Low economic growth affects poverty reduction”
With a level of Peruvian poverty above the average for Latin America and with inequality below the regional average, the challenges facing Peru are significant, highlights the representative of the World Bank, a multilateral entity that recently revised our GDP forecast to 2.0% for 2023. —How has the pandemic left Peru in terms of poverty? […]
Saki Bigio: “I think we can raise marginal taxes [a los ricos en el Perú]”
![Saki Bigio: “I think we can raise marginal taxes [a los ricos en el Perú]”](https://i0.wp.com/larepublica.cronosmedia.glr.pe/original/2023/02/09/63e54b595c3d260e2f4b7cb1.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Saki Bigio: “I think we can raise marginal taxes [a los ricos en el Perú]”")
The IMF recently pointed out that the rich in Latin America should pay their fair share of taxes. Along these lines, the economist Saki Bigio commented that there is indeed tax evasion, but at the level of all income. The first week of February 2023, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointed out that Latin America […]
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 […]