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Long-Term Growth Prospects in Peru : Leveraging the Global Green Transition and the Reforms Needed to Become a High-Income Country

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  • Chávez,Paulo
  • Daniel Francisco Barco Rondan
  • Bledi Celiku
  • Arthur Galego Mendes
  • Steven Michael Pennings
  • Elena Resk

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This paper uses the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model and extensions to study Peru’s long-term growth prospects and its potential to attain high-income economy status. Under a business-as-usual baseline, Peru’s potential GDP growth declines slowly from 2.1 to 1.7 percent over the next two decades, due mostly to demographic factors. In this baseline, it takes more than half a century to reach high income status. To accelerate growth, the paper considers moderate and ambitious reform scenarios for the non-resource sector through faster total factor productivity (TFP) growth, human capital growth, and higher investment rates. The ambitious reform path accelerates growth to an average of 4.3 percent in the simulation period (2024–50), allowing Peru to reach high-income status by 2045. The paper also considers a Global Green Transition scenario, where Peru takes advantage of higher global demand for copper from clean technologies. In that scenario, higher copper prices, greater exploration, improved mining technology, and reinvested copper windfalls increase baseline growth to 3.1 percent by 2035. If Peru were able to harness the global green transition and implement ambitious reforms in the non-resource sector, growth could accelerate to an average of 5 percent, and the country could reach high-income status by 2042.

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  • Chávez,Paulo & Daniel Francisco Barco Rondan & Bledi Celiku & Arthur Galego Mendes & Steven Michael Pennings & Elena Resk, 2024. "Long-Term Growth Prospects in Peru : Leveraging the Global Green Transition and the Reforms Needed to Become a High-Income Country," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10900, The World Bank.
  • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10900
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