The consulting firm Macroconsult specified that poverty levels in Peru could be increasing at the end of the year, harming 27.5% of the national population.
The company intended to provide conjunctural analysis, both political and economic, warned that the figure would be raising the last record made by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) at the end of 2021, when it reported that poverty had affected more than 8.5 million people, that is, 25.9% of the population.
“A growth rate of 3%, forgetting about inflation, would make the poverty rate remain constant, at levels of 25% or 26%. This is not positive news, what it is saying is that a rate of 3% is totally low to reduce current conditions,” said Macroconsult partner Álvaro Monge.
