*Peru’s central bank (BCRP) has announced that public investment in April totalled PEN3.19bn (US$866.36m), up 21% on the same month in 2022. Public investment from January-April totalled PEN9.40bn, up 10.5% on the same period in 2022, according to the BCRP.
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