mark: stephen joyce, thank you.xt, peru's finance minister joins me for today's latin american report. ♪ mark: it is time for today's latin american report. peru has adopted largest stimulus package in 15 years after the country's lowest quarter of growth in five years. the country's finance minister alonso segura has announced a set of measures to pump $1.6 billion into the economy this year as declining revenue from copper and gold exports have slowed growth and interest rates ranging from construction to retail. sir, welcome for your time today. alonso: thank you for having me. mark: you recently told the world bank that you expect the peruvian economy to expand to close to 4% this year. are you concerned upon we are seeing in commodity prices could jeopardize that growth? alonso: i think we had it in our forecast. it is still filtering through the economy but we took measures since last year. i think we will be ok, between 3.5 and 4.5. the central forecast is about 4%. mark: in 2015, peru announced a series of t

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