Peru poverty rate fell at slower pace in 2015 as recovery stalled

Peru's poverty rate fell more slowly in 2015 than in previous years, edging down a percentage point to 21.8 percent as a recovery in the mining nation stalled, government data showed on Friday. Greater gains were made in Peru's Andean and Amazonian regions, where the poverty rate fell by about 1.5 points but was still more than 15 points higher than along the populated coast. The economy recovered only slightly last year from a sharp slowdown in 2014, when prices for Peru's key mineral exports t