Bibliographic citations
Fernández, C., Salas, O. (2021). Las instituciones extractivas de la época colonial y su impacto contemporáneo en el desarrollo socioeconómico de la región Cusco, 2019. [Universidad Andina del Cusco]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/4976
Fernández, C., Salas, O. Las instituciones extractivas de la época colonial y su impacto contemporáneo en el desarrollo socioeconómico de la región Cusco, 2019. []. PE: Universidad Andina del Cusco; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/4976
@misc{renati/26674,
title = "Las instituciones extractivas de la época colonial y su impacto contemporáneo en el desarrollo socioeconómico de la región Cusco, 2019.",
author = "Salas Aráoz, Omar",
publisher = "Universidad Andina del Cusco",
year = "2021"
}
Recent literature has studied the role of extractive colonial institutions in current economic and social development. These extractive institutions were created by the European colonizers for the sole purpose of transferring the greatest amount of resources from the colony to the colonizer. This research seeks to delve into the contemporary impact of these extractive institutions and establish the importance of two channels of persistence that might have caused permanent changes in the long-term development of the Cusco Region: Political-economic conflict and socio-cultural integration. We use detailed information on the office prices of the Colonial Governments between 1673 and 1751 from the General Archive of the Indies, colonial rebellions and ethnic composition systematized by (Guardado, 2018) as well as information on contemporary socioeconomic development from the National Household Survey - ENAHO. Our main results find that colonial extractive institutions have a negative effect on the contemporary socioeconomic development of the Cusco region. In terms of magnitude, the districts with more extractive institutions have 3.2% lower household consumption, 2 years and 6 months less education on average and worse household infrastructure / access to basic sanitation. The political-economic conflicts and the presence of exploitative practices that gave rise to violence and rebellion against the colonial governors explains this persistent effect. On the other hand, we don’t find evidence of less socio-cultural integration, suggesting that minorities chose to settle in places with better institutions and where they could interact economically with the local population.
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