Peru economy raises 'huge expectations'

Peru has raised “huge expectations” on an international level, since it will become the host of the upcoming “Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in October,” Peru’s Finance Minister Alonso Segura affirmed.

Peru, being the host of the mega event, “will become the proper environment” for attendees to see for themselves the progress made by the Inca country in terms of economic and social affairs.

Minister Segura -who participated in the "2015 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund"- is confident the gatherings  will be “successful.”

“The country has been taking a series of short- and long term measures to face the external shocks and ensure economic growth is achieved. That is being recognized by the international experts, who have highlighted the results obtained thanks to those [measures]. Peru, as other countries, faces the effects of the external shocks, but we have the strengths to remain on the growth path,” he pointed out.

In the past days, rumors claimed the Minister would quit his post. Those have been completely ruled out by the Minister himself.

“We are returning to Lima with a strong work agenda, which is the outcome of the meetings held with investors in Washington D.C., which were aimed at remaining on the growth pace,” he told.

According to the IMF, in Latin America Peru will be the third most dynamic economy this year.

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Published: 4/19/2015