Peru's economy expanded 2.68 percent in March, shattering previous predictions of 2.15 percent. GDP also grew 1.73 percent, which is beyond the government's estimate of 1.5 percent growth, and the economy increased 0.7 percent on a seasonal level from February to March. Analysts expect Peru to grow around 4.0 percent in 2015.
 

Service sector exports to grow 7% to more than US$6.2 billion this year, informed David Edery, coordinator of service export sector at Peru's export and tourism promotion board (Promperu).

Peru's Minister of Economy and Finance, Alonso Segura, will participate today in the event "Latin America and the Rising South", organized by the Government of Peru and the World Bank (WB) as part of the "Road to Lima" initiative held within the framework of the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the WB and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
 

Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan will be in Lima later this week and is to give a talk at San Marcos University on May 23* in the afternoon.

A prolific novelist and short story writer, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 2012.   In 2011, then-chairman of the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Jim Leach, wrote in the Humanities magazine that Mo Yan was the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Entitled, "10 creative cities to leave the country for," DAZED published a list of alternative cities for young artists to escape to, including the Peruvian capital of Lima.

"Paris is tired. New York is obsessed with success and London is just extortionate. Berlin is reaching saturation point," opens the article that includes Lima in its top 10 creative cities, among Athens, Istanbul, and Sao Paulo, among others.

More than 860,000 people visited Peru in the first quarter of 2015, an 8.3 percent increase over 2014, according to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva.

Silva attributes the increase to an intense and continued promotional program through Promperu and the commercial offices in different cities.

This year, Silva said, the ministry expects sales of more than $60 million through the international travel fairs.  Strategic alliances with wholesale operators have also been made in the leading markets, including the United States, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canada and Spain.