Diagnosis of the state of commercial operation and opinion on the economic and financial effects on companies because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Having had access to open data from the Opinion Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on companies carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the present research constitutes informative support about the impact of COVID-19 in the Peruvian business environment during the 2nd quarter of 2020. It is disclosed that the impact is unfavorable for business development since it is evidenced the following issues: the inoperative or partial operation of the companies, the decrease in sales, the operation with a lower level of installed capacity, the participation of fewer workers, the presence of financial problems, and the little accessibility to government assistance for reactivation.