Social conflicts in peruvian mining: A theoretical analysis of its origin

Abstract

The general objective is to analyze the factors that contribute to social conflicts that limit the implementation of the planned mining investments and evaluate their impact on national and regional development. The theoretical approaches that support research at the macro level are the problems of institutionalization of subsoil ownership that unequally affects the rights of those involved in the sharing of their benefits; the poor distribution of tax revenues generated by mining. At the regional and local level, the persistence of relative poverty due to the culture of the limited good and the effect of mining exploitation on water availability and the impact of land and agricultural production. The data source is of secondary origin and uses indicators such as: GDP, Mining production, mining export, investment in mining, tax contribution, among others, published by INEI, MINEM, MEF and BCRP, Ombudsman, SUNAT and others. The general conclusion is that the aforementioned factors concur to question the current modality of exploiting the mining resources that are exhaustible and that from the point of view of the peasant communities and the surrounding population, this exploitation of the resources that they consider should benefit them as a priority cancels their chances of getting out of backwardness and poverty.