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Peru is set to post a gross domestic product growth ranging from 3.9 percent to 4 percent in 2014, according to new estimates from the country's Central Reserve Bank (BCR).
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Prime Minister Ana Jara on Monday expressed confidence that Peru will return to the growth path of four percent, since the government's actions to revive the economy have been well received by many. |
Perhaps it�s the excitement of Mistura, unique cultural conventions such as that of tattoos, or the on-coming summer season, but good vibrations are running through Peru apparently as many residents predict a promising economic future. |
Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Funds (SBS) attends the Global Policy Forum (GPF) international forum aimed at analyzing the needs and priorities of financial inclusion worldwide. |
 Peru's export and tourism promotion board (Promperu) will head a trade mission to Panama next month to attract gastronomy-sector companies that wish to establish corporate headquarters in Peru.
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Workers at iron miner Shougang Hierro Peru, a unit of China's Shougang Group , returned to work on Monday after a three-week strike that curbed production, a union leader said.
The labor ministry resolved the dispute by mandating a 4.70 soles ($1.65) per day wage increase, lower than the 9 soles hike workers demanded and slightly higher than the 4 soles increase the company was offering, union leader Julio Ortiz said.
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Pure Biofuels del Per�, SAC is pleased to announce that BP Group has completed an equity investment in the Company.
Pure Biofuels, based in Lima, Peru, is a rapidly growing company in Latin America's expanding Oil and Gas industry. The Company is a leader in the Peruvian refined fuels wholesale and distribution services market.
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Peru's Transport and Communication Minister, Jose Gallardo, opened the 4th Latin American Regional Congress of Roads on Monday morning stressing the need to invest in the new and improved technology to rapidly expanding road infrastructure.
Among the topics to be addressed at the three-day conference, which is to wrap up on Sep. 10, include current regional infrastructure challenges, focusing primarily on building and maintaining safer, sustainable, and resilient road networks
Renowned local and international experts are taking part of the forum in order to discuss the best practices and lessons learned in such fields as road safety, asset management's infrastructure, public-private partnerships (PPP) and construction materials.
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Sarah Kennedy is a zooarchaeologist investigating the lives of native Peruvians under Spanish rule in their colonial period. By analyzing the remains of animals in past settlements, she is able to piece together a mosaic of knowledge about how ancient people lived.
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More than a hundred scientists and students from Latin American countries will convene today at the tenth Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics (X COLAGE) taking place in Cusco, Peru on September 8-12, 2014.
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Peru is showing great growth not just in tourism and commerce, but within the area of public health as well. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, over 70 percent of women and over 66 percent of men within Peru have health insurance. These numbers, taken from the second quarter of 2014, show an increase of 3.1 and 4.0 percentage points for the respective sexes in comparison to the same time period of 2013.
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Six Mashco Piro tribeswomen crouched low as they escaped into the jungle after raiding a remote lodge in Peru's Manu National Park in the western Amazon, clutching newly prized tools: saucepans.
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A word of advice to crime novelists famous for penning a single detective's adventures: Don't ever announce the series' end. Doing so spells not just an outcry from fans but something like the dissolution of reality in Javier Fuentes-Leon's The Vanished Elephant, a trippy Peruvian mystery clearly inspired by Borges but touched also by North American authors from Chandler to Paul Auster. Though the metaphysical knots in its conclusion may not satisfy every viewer drawn in by the tantalizing genre beats leading up to it, the pleasingly moody picture makes a strong follow-up to Fuentes-Leon's well reviewed debut Undertow, and would likely have broader appeal in niche theatrical bookings.
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Barbecued foods and fusion cuisines are the most popular attractions among visitors and diners at the seventh edition of Peru's International Gastronomic Fair Mistura, known as the largest food festival in Latin America.
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For the past few years, there has been a growing consciousness in Peru - and in the world - of the need to have healthier lifestyles. In fact, gyms have sprawled around the city with people exercising since the early hours, people jogging or walking along the Malecones or city parks, and people paying more attention on what they put in their mouths. As somebody rightly said, we are simply what we eat.
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A recently unveiled research from Euromonitor International showed that the number of outbound tourists is increasing in Peru, a trend that was driven by the country's strong economy.
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Jesuit missionaries in Peru constructed El Templo de San Pedro Ap�stol church in the mid-1500s. They erected their Catholic temple atop Huari religious grounds called a huaca. The Huari were a pre-Inca civilization that once inhabited the area, which today still retains its Huari/Quechua name: Quispicanchi. The construction of this 'temple' served to promote Christianity, and also to convert Quispicanchi denizens. Construction ended in 1606, but the relevance of this temple as a symbol of conquest, however, has yet to end.
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Illegal loggers are being blamed for the murder of four Asheninka natives including a prominent anti-logging campaigner, Edwin Chota, near the Peruvian frontier with Brazil.
Authorities in Peru have confirmed that Chota, the leader of Alto Tamaya-Saweto, a community in Peru's Amazon Ucayali region, fought for his people's right to gain titles to their land and expel illegal loggers who raided their forests on the Brazilian border. He featured in reports by National Geographic and the New York Times that detailed how death threats were made against him and members of his community.
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 hen police here unearthed nearly 8 tons of cocaine - a national record - hidden inside lumps of coal late last month, it was little surprise that two Mexican citizens were also arrested. The brutal Mexican cartels that control the drug routes from remote Andean villages where raw coca plants grow to the world's largest consumer market, the United States, are known to have been present in Peru since the 1990s.
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