The “Global Risk Report 2025”, prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) with the support of the Marsh Mclennan firm, includes the prospects of more than 9,000 global experts and leaders. In the case of Peru, the main identified risk is economic slowdownalthough the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) projects a growth greater than […]
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Women are still five generations away from achieving true gender parity
The gender parity It is still very far away and the slowness of improvements is behind the estimate that it will take five generations (about 134 years) to reach it, and this is in case there are no new setbacks like the one experienced in several places during the period of the covid-19 pandemic. This […]
WEF: 69% of economists expect economic growth to return to 4% in 5 years
69% of economic leaders from public and private companies expect global growth to return to rates close to 4% in the next five years, indicated a survey published this Wednesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF for its acronym in English). The organizing institution of the Davos Forum, one of the main annual meetings of […]
Klaus Schwab will leave the presidency of the World Economic Forum in January
The founder of World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Next January he will leave his position as executive president and assume that of president of the foundation board, the organization confirmed this Tuesday. In a statement transmitted to EFE, the Forum pointed out that since 2015 it has gone from being a platform for international convocation […]
Sovereign digital money: BCRP launches first pilot in Peru in July
While there has been rapid growth in digital payments in the Peru —we have digital wallets like Yape or Plin—, the changes have occurred in the banking sector. In the unbanked, we still live in an ecosystem of cash payments that limits thousands of citizens. For this reason, the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) […]
Why there will be many jobs in the future, even with artificial intelligence
In the early 1960s, when the computer revolution was taking its first steps, a committee of scientists and social activists sent an open letter to the president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. “The cybernetic revolution”they said, will create “a separate nation of the poor, unskilled and unemployed” that they will not be able […]
Julio Velarde opens the doors for political reform in Peru
The event at the World Economic Forum, organized in the city of Davos (Swiss), has served to make the president of the Central Bank of Peru (BCRP), Julio Velarde, recognize that the recovery of the country’s GDP is subject to profound political reforms that resolve the succession of authorities. The Peruvian banker assured that Our […]
Julio Velarde in Davos: “A change in the constitutional rules is needed in Peru”
The president of the Central Bank of Peru (BCRP), Julio Velarde, assured that Peru’s economic stability depends “on a change in the fundamental rules” to avoid excessive succession of authorities, a procedure exceptionally regulated in the Constitution, but which has been recurring since 2016. During his presentation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the […]
China calls for “red lines” for AI and fewer trade barriers in Davos
Chinese Premier Li Qiang denounced on Tuesday in the Davos World Economic Forum trade barriers “discriminatory” and advocated establishing “Red lines” for the development of artificial intelligence. Li Qiang is the highest-ranking Chinese official to participate in the World Economic Forum held every year in Switzerland since 2017, when President Xi Jinping attended the event. […]
Milei replies to Maduro, calling him an “impoverishing socialist”
The Argentine president, Javier Mileireplied on Tuesday from Switzerland the description of “error of history” that his Venezuelan counterpart had dedicated to him, Nicolás Maduro, whom he described as “impoverishing socialist.” “I didn’t expect such praise!!! Maduro’s impoverishing socialist saying that I am a historical mistake in Latin America confirms that we are on the […]