Weekly Report - 18 May 2017 (WR-17-19)

PERU | Poverty reduction. On 10 May, the head of Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei), Aníbal Sánchez, reported that the total number of people deemed to be poor (those that earn less than US$100 a month) in the country had fallen by 1.1% in 2016 compared to 2015. Sánchez said that last year 20.7% of Peru’s population, or 6.5m people, lived in poverty.