This paper studies the impact of mining activity on socioeconomic outcomes in local
communities in Peru. In the 1990s and 2000s, the value of Peruvian mining exports grew by …

Una de las lecciones más importantes en la ciencia económica es que la productividad es
la clave del crecimiento. Y así ha sido en la historia económica del Perú, particularmente en …

We review empirical evidence on the ability of decentralization to enhance preference
matching and technical efficiency in the provision of health and education in developing …

Although numerous scholars have analyzed the effects of natural resource extraction at the
national level, few have explored it systematically at the local level. Focusing on Peru, where …

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to
wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to …

La mitad de la población urbana del Perú vive en barrios urbanos vulnerables (BUV)
ocupados informalmente, expuestos a múltiples riesgos, y deficitarios en servicios básicos e …

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating in Peru, which suffered a high
death rate and severe economic disruption. These results occurred despite ambitious …

The transfer of oil and mining revenues to the subnational governments of resource-rich
jurisdictions is a common policy aimed at promoting development and reducing local …

Background Peru has experienced unprecedented mortality and economic toll due to the
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic in 2020. We aimed to assess the …

We present findings of the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting (PB)
model carried out in rural Russia within the context of a major decentralization reform. The …