date:Oct 15, 2012
boom that has gathered steam during the last decade.
Average wages in Lima, the capital, have risen 56 percent since 2006 while unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in August from 8.4 percent six years earlier, according to Perus national statistics agency.
Peru -- a country almost as big as Alaska, encompassing Andes mountains and the Amazon jungle -- has a population of 29 million, with about three quarters of Peruvians living in cities. The growing purchasing power of the urban population is l