Peru's gross domestic product is expected to expand by 5 percent this year and by 6.3 percent in 2015 driven by a strong domestic demand, brokerage Inteligo SAB said Sunday. 

Peru's domestic investment was equivalent to 28.2 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2013, representing an slightly increase of 0.1 percentage points compared to the same period last year. 

Peru is expected to have the lowest inflation rate in Latin America this year and next, the global financial research firm BBVA Research has reported.

According to its latest report, Peru would have an inflation rate of 2.7 percent in 2014 and 2.3 percent in 2015 within the Central Reserve Bank of Peru's target range of 1.0% to 3.0%.  

Peru's country risk indicator rose from 140 to 153 basis points between May 13-20, as measured by the EMBIG Peru spread, the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) said Sunday.

The country risk measures the ability of a country to meet its financial obligations and the implicit political risk, and based on that, the country receives an international credit rating.

A group of UK companies from the railway industry showed interest in the tender of Lines 3 and 4 of the Lima Metro system, executive director of Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversi�n, Javier Illescas, said after concluding his tour in the British region. 

Small farmers living in the shadow of Peru's glaciers, which are shrinking with the warming climate, understand the importance of the water and vegetation around them. But only recently has Peru's rich natural bounty - from tropical forests and glacier-fed streams to national parks - begun to register on the Latin American nation's financial balance sheets. 

In the run up to the Peru summit, the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), SciDev.Net talks to the country's environment minister, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, about the event, and science and technology's role in addressing climate change.

I am on my way to the other side of those mountains to find my husband. He is unshaven, unfed and in a scruffy patch of rainforest - which we have purchased, but I have yet to visit - in deepest darkest Peru. I have come, part landowner but mainly tourist, to see Peru for myself.

 Officials in the Talara province of Piura in northern Peru are planning to construct a new park. However, it's not your typical park: its average visitors won't be parents with small kids, but fish.

Don't you worry, dear reader, this isn't a case of government spending gone wild on bizarre special projects. The park will be part underwater sculpture garden and part artificial reef, and will help to attract fish species as well as protect them from illegal trawlers.

Peruvian production of artichoke is expected to amount to 116,400 tons by the end of 2014, representing an 3.1% increase over a year earlier, according to Maximixe Consultants' Business and Markets Intelligence Centre. 

Peruvian quinoa exports totaled US$ 31.7 million during the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 237% compared to the same period last year, the Association of Exporters (ADEX) reported on Saturday. 

Peruvian aquaculture exports amounted to US$ 89.4 million during the first quarter of this year, representing an increase of 62 percent over the same period in 2013, according to the Association of Exporters (ADEX).

The growth experienced by the industry in the first three months is linked to the better performance of its two main products: shrimp and scallops.

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso reaffirmed his government's commitment to support the education of low-income students through the scholarship program known as Beca 18.

Launched in late 2011, the program gives university scholarships for studies in Peru and abroad to underprivileged young people who are chosen for their academic excellence in the public education system. 

The Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum, located in northern Peru's Lambayeque region, expects to draw a record-breaking two million visitors from within the country and abroad by year-end, it was reported Friday. 

The Peru This Week team visited the recently opened T-Bone Prime Steakhouse in Surco. Our first impressions were excellent. Even though this restaurant is considered a steakhouse, we were pleased with the extensive menu selections. There is something for everyone... be you a meat lover, fish fan, or even vegetarian. The quality of the dishes we sampled was good all around, ingredients were fresh and the executions were precise. We visited T-Bone at lunch and the crowd was on the light side. The dinner crowd tends to be heavier. 

GOOD Travel inspires travellers and tourism businesses to transform one of the world's largest industries into a force for GOOD. The new Wellington-based company has made a commitment to exclusively partner with hotels, restaurants and tour operators that are actively working to improve their local community, environment and economy.

The company has just announced its inaugural GOOD Food tour in Peru, which will focus on the spectacular culinary diversity and ingenuity of the gastronomic epicentre of Latin America. 

The Peruvian attacker will remain at the Allianz Arena side for an additional season after inking a new deal

Bayern Munich have announced on their official website that Claudio Pizarro has signed a new contract with the club until the summer of 2015.

The veteran forward's existing deal was due to expire this summer and there were doubts as to whether Pizarro would stay put.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two words one cannot easily forget. They represent the destruction and the immense human suffering and loss caused by the usage of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, American airplanes dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and three days later on Nagasaki. 69 years have passed since then but the effects of such acts are still present to this day. To tell us more on these tragic events, a delegation of survivors recently visited Lima as part of their worldwide tour campaign on a 'world free of nuclear weapons.'

Hundreds of professional clowns marched through the streets of Lima in Peru on Sunday.

They were celebrating Peruvian Clown Day.

The colourful entertainers danced to live music and delighted the crowds by making faces and playing with puppets.

The Cultural Association of Clowns and Circus Performers of Peru started its annual march in 2006.

Drugs trafficker Melissa Reid has been transferred to one of South America's toughest prisons, all but ending any chance of serving her sentence in the UK. 

But the pair, known as the Peru Two, suffered a setback when they were moved from the relatively comfortable Virgen de Fatima in the city to Ancon 2, an infamous desert detention centre. 

When this conservative Catholic country's first openly gay member of congress came out last week, the insults were predictable enough.

Twitter lit up with outrage, frequently spouting the word "maricon," Spanish for "fag."

But many prominent public figures, including even from the right wing, lined up to sing congressman Carlos Bruce's praises, describing him as brave and a model Peruvian.

Bruce chuckles in hindsight.