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Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2014

Elisa Ticci  and
Javier Escobal
Elisa Ticci
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Piazza San Francesco 7, 53100 Siena, Italy. Tel: +39 0577235058; Fax: +39 0577232793. E-mail: [email protected]
Javier Escobal
Affiliation:
Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), Lima, Peru. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

During the last 20 years, 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 development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational indicators, and that these impacts, on average, are smaller in districts with lower levels of corporate social expenditure. However, the results of this study suggest that the local potential welfare impact of the mining boom is largely untapped and corporate social responsibility has had a limited role in improving this effect.

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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 101 - 126
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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