Lucia Mendez, 40, checks on a pot of frying fish, as she prepares lunches that she sells for 3.50 soles, or about one US dollar, in the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund are taking place in Peru on Oct. 6-11, a country that according to the World Bank, has been able to reduce its poverty rate by more than half since 2002. Yet while only one in four Peruvians is poor, 40 percent of the population, or 12 million people, are at risk of sliding back into poverty.
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