SNI: Nine out of ten punenos are informal and earn less than S$650.

Region Fist it has been hardest hit by election-motivated protests, in which 17 people have died in clashes in recent days. And that’s what social gaps in this department they kept its inhabitants dissatisfied.

Here, four out of ten Puno residents suffer from financial poverty; that is, what they earn is not enough to support the basic basket, which includes, among other things, food, clothing, housing, education. The lack of job security is caused by a high level of informal employment.

According to Jesús Salazar Nishi, President National Society of Industry (SNI), 90% of people work informally and have an income below S/650 soles, this reflects a large gap compared to a resident with formal employment.

” informal employment exceeds 90%, again the second worst indicator in the country, the first one has Huancavelica… An informal worker in Puno earns on average more or less S/635 and a formal worker a little more than S/2000,” he warned RPP Noticias’ Economy for All program.

This region has low participation in national productionthis explains the meager supply of official work for the 1,200,000 inhabitants of this department.

“Puno has a stake in GDP only 2%, but manufacturing GDP is hardly 1%; In other words, it is not present in national production, Puno cannot remain on the sidelines of national production,” Salazar Nishi warned.

Labor shortage in the southern macro-region

Jesús Salazar Nishi warned that the same informal scenario exists throughout the southern macro-region, whose potential is not being used, leaving poverty at just over two in ten Peruvians a year. southern Peru.

“The entire southern macro-region has a share in the national GDP of 15%, and at the industrial level it barely reaches 12%, and if we talk about poverty, then 25.5% is slightly below the national average, and this is because some regions, such as Moquegua and Arequipa, raise that average,” he says.

Do?

According to the spokesperson, public investment is needed to encourage the entry of private capital. “We have a few resources to put in a folder and go look for private investment and attract private capital… Private investment will come if there is roads, energy and closing the gap,” he warned.