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The Peruvian government has made substantial strides towards lowering the poverty rate across the country. Now, Prime Minister Rene Cornejo said, they'd like to see extreme poverty completely eradicated by 2021. |
 Peru's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.91 percent in March compared with the same month a year earlier, thus accumulating 56 consecutive months of growth, the government has announced on Thursday.
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 The Peruvian government's National Plan for Productive Diversification will facilitate the annual creation of nearly 200,000 new jobs during the first stage of its implementation, the National Society of Industries (SNI) has announced.
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Peru accounts for 5.4 percent of the global production of gold, while the country lines up US$ 9.82 billion worth of gold projects currently in the pipeline, the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy's (SNMPE) President Eva Arias said Wednesday.
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Chile's mining industry has a productivity problem and, unless it is addressed, neighbouring South American countries such as Peru will benefit.
Despite its mineral wealth, Chile's energy, water and labour-cost issues could stymie much-needed investment in the South American nation.
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 Peruvian fish exports generated US$ 336.2 million in revenue in February, up 92.7 percent from the same period a year ago, when its value was US$ 174.4 million, the Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) has reported
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 A delegation of Peruvian fishing companies recently participated in the Seafood Expo Global and settled deals that are expected to exceed US$ 67 million.
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 To grow in Latin America, Seven Seas Water is betting on new desalination plants in Chile and Peru, two countries starving for water. The US-based company, which currently operates 10 desalination plants in the Caribbean, has a 100,000m3/d capacity and aims to reach 300,000m3/d by end-decade.
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The snow-capped mountains running through the centre of this satellite image are part of the Cordillera Blanca - or 'white range' - in South America's Andes. Even though they are part of the typically warm Tropics - the region of Earth surrounding the equator - the mountain range is high enough to be permanently covered in snow and ice. |
 Environmental specialists warn that this year's El Ni�o phenomenon could be as damaging to Peru as the El Ni�o of 1998. Luis Icochea, oceanographic investigator and ex president of Imarpe; Luis Giampietri, also an ex president of Imarpe; and Gustavo Laos, technical coordinator of the National Study of the El Ni�o phenomenon (Enfen) say that the conditions of the Pacific Ocean resemble those preceding El Ni�o of 1998, which left the country in a mess.
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 Peru has begun government-to-government negotiation with Germany to develop cooperation for state modernization and climate change agenda, the Peruvian International Cooperation Agency (APCI) has reported.
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 Peruvian Vice President Marisol Espinoza is among those lending their support to the social media campaign which encourages military intervention to recover the 276 girls who were kidnapped by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria.
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Life expectancy for men and women in Peru has increased significantly over the past two decades, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. According to WHO, the life expectancy for both women and men in Peru was 79 years in 2012, compared to 69 years for men and 73 years for women in 1990, daily El Comercio reported. |
 A Peruvian judge ordered the arrest Thursday of a regional governor on murder charges in the March gangland-style slaying of a political rival who had accused him of running a corrupt, violent mini-dictatorship in a rich mining state. MORE: Court Orders Arrest of Ancash Regional President and Allies
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You should never judge a book by its cover, nor, apparently, a restaurant by its name. At least not where Malabar is concerned. In at number seven on last year's Top 50 Restaurants in Latin America List, the name seems to suggest a celebration of the fragrantly spiced food from the Malabar coast of Southwest India, a kind of Peruvian-Indian fusion. But in reality, Malabar, in the exclusive San Isidro district of Lima is a tour de force of wonderfully inventive and downright tasty cuisine inspired by the food of the Amazon region of Peru.
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 A total of 800,896 foreign tourists visited Peru during the first quarter of 2014, representing an increase of 3.7% over the same period in 2013, according to data from the country's Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry (Mincetur).
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 Italian model Samantha Scarlino was arrested months ago in connection with an alleged international cocaine trafficking ring that included two British women, Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum, known as the Peru 2.
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