BBVA Research

Peru is close to passing a law that establishes the framework for Private Special Economic Zones. This document reviews selected international experiences with such zones. The proposed regulatory framework appears to lack sufficient emphasis on key factors that would be critical to ensuring the success of this initiative.

Poverty stood at 31.8% in 2024, down from 34.6% in 2023 – a reduction of 2.8 percentage points. This means 1.3 million people exited poverty between 2023 and 2024. Overall, between 2012 and 2024, poverty decreased by 9.2 pp, falling from 41% to 31.8%.

We present an econometric model in order to estimate the global and domestic macroeconomic determinants of portfolio flows into Türkiye. Our findings point to the significant relationship between flows and market volatility and economic policy uncertainty on the global side, and risk premium on the domestic front.

Since recovering in 2014, the flow of remittances to Mexico has experienced a streak of 11 consecutive years of growth, which will most likely end in 2025. Between 2013 and 2024, remittances increased in nominal terms from $23 billion to $64.7 billion; that is, they almost tripled.

The production of liquid hydrocarbons of Pemex in the second quarter of 2025 vs. the previous quarter showed an increment of 15.8 thousand barrels a day mainly due to a higher production of superlight crude oil and condensates by 22.8 thousand barrels a day.