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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the international price of gold continues to soar, thousands of people in Peru have moved to gold mining areas in the hope of striking it rich. Along with the unregulated digging comes a trail of ...