ABSTRACT
This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years.
The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic growth and notable reductions of poverty and income inequality. The boom also constituted a period of important institutional change, with these new institutions sharing the potential of preventing or mitigating the maladies extractive economies tend to suffer from, generally denominated as the “resource curse”. This volume explores these institutional changes in the Andean region to identify the factors that have shaped their emergence and to assess their performance. The interdisciplinary and comparative perspective of the chapters in this book provide fine-grained analyses of different new institutions introduced in the Andean countries and discusses their findings in the light of the resource curse approach. They argue that institutional change and performance depend upon a much larger set of factors than those generally identified by the resource curse literature. Different, domestic and external, economic, political and cultural factors such as ideological positions of decision-makers, international pressure or informal practices have shaped institutional dynamics in the region. Altogether, these findings emphasize the importance of nuanced and contextualized analysis to better understand institutional dynamics in the context of extractive economies.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, political economics, Latin American studies and sustainable development.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, ; has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|35 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|33 pages
A curse over the Andes?
part 2|211 pages
Empirical studies
chapter 2|15 pages
Fiscal reforms and institutional changes in the Andean region
chapter 3|16 pages
Cash transfers as citizens' dividend of the resource boom
chapter 4|18 pages
Growing under the shadow of oil
chapter 5|16 pages
Hybrid institutions
chapter 6|18 pages
Prior consultation to halt the resource curse?
chapter 7|20 pages
The curse among citizens
chapter 8|16 pages
Towards new rules for political transparency
chapter 9|19 pages
Between environmental subsystem change and extractive regime resilience
chapter 10|21 pages
Strengthening or weakening environmental institutions?
chapter 11|20 pages
New institutions, old practices
chapter 12|14 pages
How to institutionalize sustainability?
chapter 13|16 pages
Changes to the environmental monitoring institutions for the mining sector in San Juan, Argentina
part 3|19 pages
Conclusions and road ahead