Natural gas revenues, subnational politics, and agrarian change in Peru and Bolivia

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dc.contributor.authorIrarrazaval, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorViale, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:01:49Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:01:49Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe literature about natural resources and development has largely described states' failure to translate large resource endowments into sustainable development. Consequently, terms like resource curse or Dutch disease have become widely accepted. However, the literature examining this process at the subnational level has been less conclusive regarding the local effects, such as economic diversification. It is therefore pertinent to examine the contextual conditions underpinning both the expenditure of resource rents at the subnational level and the effects of such expenditures on economic diversification, particularly on the agrarian sector. To do so, this contribution deploys a comparative analysis between the Tarija department in Bolivia and La Convencion province in Peru. Both are hydrocarbon-rich areas in which subnational governments received massive amounts of resource rents. A deep examination based on qualitative and quantitative data permits the affirmation that whereas similar place-specific conditions boosted a massive investment of resource rents into public infrastructure, the composition of the agrarian sector defined a different trajectory in each case. While the strong peasant organization of Tarija obtained a direct transfer of resource rents, the transfer of those rents to the peasants in La Convencion was only through wages conditioned to work in the construction sector. As such, resource rents undermined the agrarian sector in La Convencion, while in Tarija the sector remained stable and potentially stronger in the long run.
dc.description.fundercenter for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES)
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.exis.2022.101093
dc.identifier.eissn2214-7918
dc.identifier.issn2214-790X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101093
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92959
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000863296100013
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaExtractive industries and society
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectResource rents
dc.subjectAgrarian change
dc.subjectExtractive industries
dc.subjectSubnational political economy
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods01 No Poverty
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa01 Fin de la pobreza
dc.titleNatural gas revenues, subnational politics, and agrarian change in Peru and Bolivia
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen11
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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