1. Peru is ranked 36th out of the 183 countries in Doing Business 2011, which is 10 places higher compared to last year. Peru is among the top ten reformers in 2011. In Starting a Business, Peru eased business start-up by simplifying the requirements for operating licenses and creating an online one-stop shop for business registration. In Dealing with Construction Permits, Peru streamlined construction permitting by implementing administrative reforms. In Registering Property, the country introduced fast-track procedures at the land registry, cutting by half the time needed to register property. Finally, in Trading Across Borders, Peru made trading easier by implementing a new web-based electronic data interchange system, risk-based inspections and payment deferrals.
2. According to the latest Enterprise Surveys (2006), the top three constraints to firm investment in Peru include Practices of the Informal Sector, Tax Administration and Political Instability. Among the firms surveyed, 68.43% of them report competing against unregistered or informal firms.
3. In the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators (2009), Peru is just below the 20th percentile for the Aggregate Indicator. For Government Effectiveness, in 2009 Peru is just above the 40th percentile. For Regulatory Quality, Peru is above the 60th percentile.
4. Peru’s economic freedom score is 68.6, making its economy the 41st freest in the 2011 Index. Its score is 1 point better than last year, reflecting improvements that include a notable gain in business freedom. Peru is ranked 5th out of 29 countries in the South and Central America/Caribbean region, and its overall score is above the world and regional averages.

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#	Indicator	Rank					Scale	Score									Trend over past year1
		2012	2011	2010	2009	2008		2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
1	Business Environment Index  EIU - Global Outlook Report					50 (82)	1-10					6.0	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.4
2	Control of Corruption Indicator  World Bank Group			99 (202)	107 (202)	102 (202)	-2.5-2.5			-0.2	-0.3	-0.3	-0.4	-0.4	-0.5	-0.4
3	Regulatory Quality  World Bank Group			67 (202)	72 (202)	75 (202)	-2.5-2.5			0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2
4	Country Credit Rating  Institutional Investor		50 (178)	56 (178)	53 (178)	63 (174)	0-100		62.7	58.3	59.5	57.7	53.9	50.5	44.9	42.4
5	Index of Economic Freedom  The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal	41 (178)	41 (178)	45 (178)	56 (179)	54 (157)	0-100	68.7	68.6	67.6	64.6	63.8	62.7	60.5	61.3	64.7
6	Political Risk Rating (ICRG)  PRS Group	78 (140)	81 (140)	85 (140)	87 (140)	81 (140)	0-100	62.5	62.5	62.0	62.0	63.5	63.0	63.0	64.0	62.5
7	Doing Business Ranking*  World Bank Group		41 (183)	39 (183)			1-1832

View business legislation in the Doing Business Law Library.

View reports on the business environment produced by the World Bank Group within the last five years.

View projects associated with the World Bank Group's Finance and Private Sector Development unit. View brief summaries of the private sector strategy as stated in the most recent Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) document.

Peru Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) PSD focus:
(December 2006)

The IBRD will accompany the government’s priorities in financial and private sector development through a series of programmatic Fiscal Management and Competitiveness DPLs that will have among its objectives to:
(i) foster formality and MSME growth
(ii) increase the resiliency and depth of the banking system
(iii) promote longer term local currency investment and savings vehicles.

IFC has developed a strategy which is integrated with the program o f the IBRD and that supports the development path outlined above by the new government. This strategy will be implemented by focusing our activities on:
(i) tackling Peru’s high informality.
(ii) address bottlenecks to provision of basic services and physical infrastructure.
(iii) investing in industries with strong competitive advantages such as agribusiness, and tourism.
(iv) expanding growth to new beneficiaries.
(v) supporting environmentally and socially sustainable growth.

World Bank  [Click to expand/collapse]
Project		Total Project Amount (US $ millions)	Contact
Name:	PE (CRL) Guarantee Facility	200.00	Marchetti,Rogelio C.
ID:	P088923
Open/Close:	4/28/2005
Status:	Active
Name:	Client Poverty Levels of Financial Institutions in Peru	0.00	Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin
ID:	P088909
Open/Close:	4/15/2004
Status:	Active
Name:	Trade Facilitation and Productivity Improvement Technical Assistance Project	20.00	Avalle,Oscar
ID:	P077788
Open/Close:	6/5/2003 - 11/30/2008
Status:	Closed
International Finance Corporation  [Click to expand/collapse]
Project		Total Project Amount (US $ millions)	Contact
Name:	Trade Logistics Peru	1.01	Uma Subramanian
ID:	575348
Open/Close:	9/1/2010
Status:	Active
Name:	BUSINESS INSPECTIONS FOR OPERATING LICENSES AND CONSTRUCTION PERMITS IN PERU	0.70	Ernesto Franco-Temple
ID:	568467
Open/Close:	7/1/2010
Status:	Active
Name:	BNacion-MBanking	0.30	Alvaro G. Tarazona Soria
ID:	574067
Open/Close:	2/1/2010
Status:	Active
Name:	Opportunities for Development of an IT/ITES industry in Peru	0.10	Horacio A. Rivera-Piza
ID:	568547
Open/Close:	5/26/2009
Status:	Active
Name:	Edpyme Confianza Transformation into Finance Company	0.26	Alvaro G. Tarazona Soria
ID:	557026
Open/Close:	11/8/2007
Status:	Active
Name:	Supporting Edpyme Edyficar transformation into a Financial Co.	0.35	Alvaro G. Tarazona Soria
ID:	556586
Open/Close:	10/27/2007
Status:	Active
Name:	EBGEF BBVA Continental Peru	0.53	Juan Luis Podesta
ID:	550267
Open/Close:	10/1/2006
Status:	Active
Name:	National Plan Peru	1.41	Kristtian Rada
ID:	543944
Open/Close:	2/1/2006
Status:	Active