* Peru’s finance minister, Alex Contreras, has announced that over US$1bn in private investment contracts have been awarded this year as part of the government’s public-private associations (APP) initiative. Contreras said that “with what has been delivered so far, we have already exceeded to total for 2019-2022 and we’re aiming to exceed US$3.5bn in awards this year”.
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