LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's poverty rate rose again last year, official data showed on Thursday, as South America's fourth biggest nation struggles to emerge from a painful recession amid ongoing ...

As I walked around Lima, Peru, on a wintry July morning, right away I noticed the city embodies the tale of two cities. Along its coastline, beautiful neighborhoods have breathtaking ocean views, ...

Monetary poverty affected 25.7% of the population in the country, a rate that declined by 1.9 percentage points compared to 2024 (27.6%), meaning 567,000 people moved out of poverty, the <a href=" ...

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s poverty rate increased last year for the first time since 2001, rising one percentage point to 21.7 percent, according to government data published on Tuesday. Peru had slashed ...

Peru was one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of health and economic impacts and the erosion of the social gains achieved in the previous decade. By July 2022, Peru had ...

The <a href=" of Economy and Finance (MEF) highlighted that the <a href=" poverty rate declined from 27.6% in 2024 to 25.7% in 2025, driven by solid economic growth, as well as the dynamism of public ...

Many Peruvians voting on Sunday want a new president who will stop the country's economic growth from slipping away. But millions never felt that growth in the first place. Along a hillside ridge in ...

Among the varied and recent controversial statements by Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez, and one that has provoked commentary from the most diverse political sectors, not to mention ordinary ...