Banco Mundial presentó evaluación de pobreza y equidad en el Perú

Hi Maritza, how are you? We are at the World Bank headquarters here in Peru, in the district of San Isidro. Today we're going to talk with Tania Goodwin, she's Senior Country Economist for Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia. Today, we are going to talk with her so that she can give us the diagnosis and picture of the level of

poverty in our country. How are you, Tania? Welcome to Economics for Everyone. Thank you very much, Valeria. Thank you so much for the invitation. Okay , so first of all you have presented a rather interesting report called " Strengthened Resurging, Evaluation of Poverty and Equity in Peru," which is, let's say, a diagnosis, a

scenario of the level of poverty and vulnerability in our country. What does it mean for the World Bank, Tania, to be poor in Peru? Yes, we have two ways of measuring it. We use the national poverty line, which is the one used by INEI, and we also use our poverty line, which tries to compare

poverty in several countries, which is 6.85 a day. Is it a monetary, multidimensional measure of poverty ? What is the vision? These two poverty lines are monetary; we also looked in the report at the multidimensional dimension of poverty, right. Initially, I find this diagnosis that you have from the World Bank regarding the number

of poor people in Peru in 2022 very interesting. Um, there are a little over half a million poor Peruvians, or Peruvians who have fallen into poverty. What has been, let's say, another of the main conclusions you have drawn from this overview? Yes. To be honest, the first thing we look at is what happened before the

pandemic. In the two decades before the pandemic, poverty had been reduced from 60% to 20%. That's a success story. Indeed, as a result of the pandemic, it has now risen again. Not only poverty, but we now also have more vulnerable people. What does "vulnerable" mean? They are vulnerable to falling back into poverty. So, in summary, we have