Country Snapshot - Peru  

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  • Latin America & Caribbean
  • Upper middle income
  • 28,836,700
  • 3986.58
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Below are select highlights for the data included in the profile.

  1. Peru's country ranking tracks quite closely with the average regional and income group rankings of most indicators. Peru improved in three rankings. According to the Economic Freedom Index, Peru's score is higher this year due to improvements in trade freedom.
  2. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report for 2007-08, the three most problematic factors for doing business are policy instability, inefficient government bureaucracy, and tax regulations. The top three constraints to firm investment, according to the Enterprise Surveys (2006) are similar -- informality (percent of sales reported for tax purposes), tax administration, and political instability.
  3. Peru's overall Ease of Doing Business ranking is higher this year reflecting improvements in five indicators, especially in Employing Workers and Registering Property. The number of days to start a business has been reduced from 65 to 41. Peru also ranks in the top 20 countries in Getting Credit and Protecting Investors indicators.