By Susana Condado After the coronavirus pandemic, one of the slogans of the Peruvian Government and businessmen is to recover the dynamism of tourism. And, as a result of the mandatory confinement and health restrictions, this activity is one of the few that is still far from its potential. For this year, it is expected […]
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Inflation will return this year to its pre-COVID-19 level
After 2020, inflation climbed to a peak of 8.46%, its highest level in just over two decades, and only four years after the pandemic is it expected to normalize and close at 2.2%, according to the Bank Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP). What do we call regularized inflation? It is when the Consumer Price […]
Ecological transition will affect productivity in the short and medium term, says the ECB
The ecological transition will affect productivity growth in the short and medium term, due to the adjustments that companies will have to make to adapt to the reduction in emissions, but will boost it over a longer period of time, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). This Tuesday, the organization published a new article […]
The post-covid world is recovering, but it forgets the poorest, warns the UNDP
Humanity recovered its level of development prior to the pandemicbut the record expected for 2023 hides a growing gap between rich and poor countries in a world as fragile as a “house of cards”warns the UN. In 2020 and 2021, for the first time since its creation more than 30 years ago, the Human Development […]
Peruvians spend S/911 per month on appliances
Per month, Peruvians spend S/911 on purchases of electronic products, which represents S/300 more than a year before the pandemicaccording to GfK. As is known, the quarantine—especially in the year of the national bicentennial—brought with it the normalization of online transactions and raised the bar for the rest of the years even though the numbers […]
Employment: 9 out of 10 independent workers are informal
The pandemic increased labor informality in Peru, and five presidents later, solutions have not arrived. The numbers speak: the recovery of employment, after the paralysis of the bulk of economic activities in mid-2020, was driven 81% by informal workers during our bicentennial, according to the International Labor Organization. The ILO recalls that, with the outbreak […]
Unemployment in California is “crazy,” say those affected by the coronavirus crisis | PHOTOS
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With Hollywood productions suspended, sports stadiums empty and bars closed, California is the state with the most applications for unemployment benefits, among the 17 million Americans who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here the faces of this crisis in California. Films At any other time, the show would have to go on. […]
Fitur celebrates a record edition in the midst of the tourism sector taking off after the pandemic
Madrid starting tomorrow, Wednesday, it will host the 44th edition of the tourism fair Fitur, the first in the world in the sector by number of attendees and participants, and which this year anticipates record numbers in the midst of the industry’s takeoff after the pandemic. On this occasion, the Ifema exhibition center dedicates nine […]
Poverty and repression: North Korean defector denounces what the pandemic meant in his country
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Mr. Kim is one of the few North Koreans who, after fleeing his country, can tell what happened there during the pandemic. His story sheds light on the greater repression and the economic and nutritional deterioration that the covid and that human rights organizations denounce. The coronavirus restrictions began in his border province of South […]
WHO: “future generations would not forgive” if a treaty against pandemics is not achieved
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today acknowledged difficulties in negotiating a global treaty for pandemic preparedness, and warned member countries that “future generations would not forgive” if it was not achieved. “I am concerned that Member States are not fulfilling their commitments, time is ticking and there are still […]