If the pressure of qualifying for their first World Cup in 35 years wasn’t enough, around $1.3 billion may be on the line for Peru in the second leg of Full Article »
Peru’s finance ministry has cancelled the contract to build the Southern Gas Pipeline after the consortium to build it missed a key financing deadline. The Southern Gas Pipeline consortium which Full Article »
The construction of Peru’s $7-billion Southern Gas Pipeline could be stalled indefinitely if Odebrecht cannot sell its majority stake in the project in the next month. If the consortium licensed Full Article »
The future of shipments from the Las Bambas copper mine hinge on whether four villages in Apurimac accept the government’s offer of a 45-day truce. Copper concentrate has not left Full Article »
Peru Vice President Martin Vizcarra meets with local leaders in an attempt to end a blockade in Apurimac which threatens to halt copper production at the Las Bambas mine. Vizcarra, Full Article »
Peru’s government has submitted a fiscal budget for 2017 which expands spending by 4.7% to drive economic growth and improve government services. Cabinet chief Fernando Zavala presented to Congress last week a budget featuring significant spending increases in government Full Article »
Peru’s economic growth in 2016 is developing slightly lower than economists’ expectations due to a collapse in oil production and fishing. Peru’s statistical agency, INEI, released data showing the economy Full Article »
Legislators in Tacna and Tumbes are looking to attract hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by amending Peru’s Constitution to allow foreign capital into border regions. Article 71 of Full Article »
Inflation data in Peru showed prices in May picked up slightly since April but continued a downward trend with an annualized rate of 3.5%. Peru’s INEI statistical agency said that Full Article »
A new economic report predicts that Peru’s informal sector will remain a significant part of the national economy until at least 2050. Peru’s state planning agency published a report forecasting Full Article »
