Excluding salary and wage bonuses from deductions and other measures taken by the Executive Power are accurate to improve business expectations with regard to Peru's economic growth, said the Manager of Economic Studies Department at Scotiabank, Guillermo Arbe.

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Peru's estimated public investment will be close to 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) over the next three years, exceeding that of Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Uruguay, reported the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
 

Exporters in Peru's Arequipa region are being urged to take advantage of the Interoceanic Highway to access the Brazilian market. At a recent workshop organised by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), minister Magali Silva Velarde-Alvarez said the corridor offered cost and time advantages, helping to improve the competitiveness of Peruvian products in the Brazilian market.

The 2,600km highway links the Peruvian ports of San Juan de Marcona, Matarani and Ilo to Brazilian ports and cities in the Rio Branco Special Export Zone.

Today, Peru's Agriculture Minister and current Chairman of the Committee on Dialogue installed at Islay (Arequipa), Juan Manuel Benites, reaffirmed the Executive Power's willingness to engage in dialogue with local farmers opposing Tia Maria mining project.
 

Former prime minister and finance minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski launched his presidential campaign for next year's general elections, to be held in April 2016.

Kuczynski, a well-known economist in Peru, will run for office for Peru's top post for a second time, aiming to brand himself as the "progressive" candidate in a field that is expected to be full of market-friendly, right-wing politicians.

Defense Minister, Jakke Valakivi, headed the ceremony, which commemorated the Anniversary of the Peruvian Army's Artillery Unit.

There are many terms you can use to describe the forest in deepest, darkest Peru. Generically it is part of the Amazonian rainforest, that vast expanse of land and water that extends into no fewer than nine South American countries and which breathes life (and oxygen) into the rest of the world. Within that, there's the primary and the secondary rainforests; the tropical and the subtropical rainforests; the highland and the lowland rainforests. And then there's my favourite, the cloud forest, that almost mystical, mist-infused, fern-filled zone between the mountains and the mass of greenery and fecundity below.