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.

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#	Indicator	Rank				Scale	Score							Trend over past year1
		2009	2008	2007	2006		2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003
1	Business Environment Index  EIU - Global Outlook Report		50 (82)	56 (82)	55 (82)	1-10		6.0	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.7
2	Control of Corruption Indicator  World Bank Group		102 (202)	101 (201)	105 (201)	-2.5-2.5		-0.3	-0.4	-0.4	-0.5	-0.4	-0.2
3	Regulatory Quality  World Bank Group		75 (202)	84 (200)	87 (200)	-2.5-2.5		0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
4	Country Credit Rating  Institutional Investor	53 (178)	63 (174)	64 (174)	67 (173)	0-100	59.5	57.7	53.9	50.5	44.9	42.4	36.3
5	Index of Economic Freedom  The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal	56 (179)	54 (157)	60 (157)	71 (157)	0-100	64.6	63.8	62.7	60.5	61.3	64.7	64.6
6	Political Risk Rating (ICRG)  PRS Group	87 (140)	81 (140)	83 (140)	88 (140)	0-100	62.0	63.5	63.0	63.0	64.0	62.5	61.5
7	Doing Business Ranking  World Bank Group	56 (183)	65 (183)			1-1832
8	Quality of National Business Environment Ranking  World Economic Forum - Global Competitiveness Report			82 (127)	78 (111)	1-1272

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
IFC  [Click to expand/collapse]
Project		Total Project Amount (US $ millions)	Contact
Name:	BUSINESS INSPECTIONS FOR OPERATING LICENSES AND CONSTRUCTION PERMITS IN PERU	0.57	Ernesto Franco-Temple
ID:	568467
Open/Close:	7/1/2009
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:	EBGEF BBVA Continental Peru	0.53	Juan Luis Podesta
ID:	550267
Open/Close:	12/4/2006
Status:	Active
Name:	National Plan Peru	1.71	Kristtian Rada
ID:	543944
Open/Close:	2/1/2006
Status:	Active
Name:	2006 CAD Governmental Best Practices Campaign	0.15	Ernesto Franco-Temple
ID:	542665
Open/Close:	4/15/2006 - 6/20/2007
Status:	Closed
Name:	Removing Administratative Barriers to Investment in the regions of Peru	0.13	Igor E. Artemiev
ID:	539044
Open/Close:	8/8/2005 - 12/31/2007
Status:	Closed
Name:	Simplifying Procedures at Lima Municipality	0.25	Kristtian Rada
ID:	531320
Open/Close:	11/1/2004 - 7/11/2007
Status:	Closed