explore how the mining industry has been managed, and wider economic management during boom periods. We find that successive … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

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 …