The classification evaluates the capacity of 67 countries to produce goods in better or equal conditions than those offered by other economies, through four fundamental pillars: Economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency and infrastructure.

 

Chile remains the most competitive in Latin America, while Mexico, Colombia and Brazil have surpassed us in 2024. In just one year, we fell from 55th to 63rd place and globally, we are barely better than Nigeria, Ghana, Argentina and Venezuela.

 

 

Appropriate infrastructure is fundamental for the economic and social progress of any country, and although it has always been our Achilles heel, today we present alarming results in the subfactors of basic, technological, environmental, educational and health infrastructure. In government efficiency, we are observed for corruption, incompetent administration and political instability. In business efficiency, we lost 30 positions between 2008 and 2024, which illustrates the urgent need to enable an environment that promotes innovation and business development. The most dramatic drop occurs in economic performance, in which our country fell 46 positions. What was a notable strength is fading due to serious problems in employment and the domestic economy, among others, so it is necessary to recover policies that promote growth and economic stability.

 

 

Coinciding with Peru's dramatic fall in this hierarchy, we observe the exponential and incessant increase in regulations, inspections and bureaucratic procedures; that formal entrepreneurs suffer daily when they develop their businesses or try to expand those they already own. The route that led us to economic progress with poverty reduction was abandoned, and a State that pursued private initiative (the main engine of the growth of towns) was generated, with its inevitable consequence of informality (almost 80% of the economy). , illegality, loss of competitiveness, fall in GDP and deterioration in the quality of life of the population.

 

 

What is described contradicts what the highest government authorities frequently express, in the sense that they support private investment and that procedures and cost overruns will be reduced to encourage it. These statements collide with the reality that represents the attitude of many of the middle managers of the ministries, regional governments and other public institutions who seem to follow other designs. We have examples in all business activities.

 

It is time to end this kind of dictatorship and get to work for the development of the country. Whether we work in the public or private sector, we must assume the commitment to work in unity to defeat evils such as poverty, malnutrition and anemia; as well as to generate the conditions so that all Peruvians can access formal jobs that provide well-being to families.

 

 

We must solve people's real problems, and for that we must stop being a country solely with potential, to be a nation that faces the challenges of globalization, respecting each other, with efficiency, productivity, legal and political stability that does not exist. discourage investment, encouraging small and large entrepreneurs, guaranteeing access to health and education and providing opportunities for all. In a few years we could occupy the leadership that destiny has reserved for Peru.