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Peruvian fishermen have faced three consecutive years of instability associated with the occurrence of El Niño. Since 2014 the climate cycle has weakened the supply of anchovy, the sector’s prime catch, with negative impacts on exports of fishmeal and fish oils. Despite a weak performance in 2016, the sector’s recovery is expected to gain...

Aiming to increase the number of Peruvians with access to high-speed broadband internet, in 2012 the government introduced the broadband adoption law, an ambitious plan to develop a National Fibre Optical Backbone Network (Red Dorsal Nacional de Fibra Optica, RDNFO). In light of often-weak economic incentives for operators to invest in...

In 2015 more than 19,000 Chinese tourists visited Peru, an increase of 16% over 2014, making China the third-largest source market of Asian tourists to the country. In December 2015 Peru won the “Best New Potential Destination” award from Best Travel Media, the official media outlet of the China Association of Travel Services, a signal of the...

Increased investment and the expansion of irrigated land along the Peruvian coast has ensured the continued development of large-scale industrial agriculture in Peru for more than two decades. After introducing dozens of new products to Peruvian soils, local agri-business firms have successfully expanded and diversified the country’s...

Home to high-quality materials such as pima cotton, alpaca and vicuña wools, among others, Peru has long been a competitive producer of clothes for both local and international markets.

As the world’s third-largest producer of copper and zinc and with the sixth-largest gold reserves, for a country with a population of just 30m people, Peru has historically commanded a large presence in the global commodities market. This was especially true over the 10 years spanning 2002-12, when prices increased substantially during the...