with only modest success. This paper looks at what the country needs to do to create a mining fiscal regime that could … for mining within the tax agency, preferably headed by a commissioner, could help enhance productivity. …

explore the case of Peru, a mining-rich middle income country where -exploiting a unique data set constructed for this purpose …- we are able to assess systematic differences in district-level welfare outcomes between mining and non-mining districts …. We find evidence that the condition of being mining-abundant district have a significant impact on the pace of reduction …