Contreras, Carlos - In: Natural resources and divergence : a comparison of …, (pp. 67-112). 2021
Like other Andean countries, Peru has traditionally been considered as a mining economy since most of its exports … consisted of mining products. Mining has also been a key determinant of economic growth and recession cycles and a source of … government revenue, both for the central- and other government levels. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the mining …