Exctractive Industries and Local Development in the Peruvian Highlands

Elisa Ticci () and Javier Escobal

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: During the last decade, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using Census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining history with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational indicators. The study also shows that districts which lower level of corporate social expenditure have on average smaller impacts. However, the local potential welfare effect of the mining boom is largely untapped and the role of corporate social responsibility for its full materialization is still limited.

Keywords: extractive industry; local development; Latin America; Peru; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L72 N56 O12 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012
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