Elisa Ticci

 

 

Biographical note

Elisa Ticci received her Ph.D. in Development Economics from University of Florence in 2007. During her doctoral studies, she was visiting researcher at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and at GRADE Grupo de Análisis para el Desarollo in Lima.

After her dissertation, she worked as research assistant for the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, The World Bank, and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She taught an undergraduate course in Economics at University of Florence from 2007 to 2009 and in 2007, she was teaching assistant for an undergraduate course in Political Economy of Development at University of Florence.

Her main research interests include the relationship between poverty, environmental degradation and access to natural resources. Working at the World Bank for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management - Africa Region Unit, she has dealt with gender inequality and urban poverty, and with distributive effects of food and energy price shocks in Ethiopia. Finally, in the last year, she contributed as research assistant to the first edition of the European Report on Development which focuses on state fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

 

Microeconomic and social impacts of mining industry in Peru

Since the Nineties, Peru has been experiencing a protracted period of mining growth. This expansion has occurred in an institutional context that should encourage a positive interaction of mines with local development. Environmental regulation and monitoring have become more restrictive, a participatory approach has been often adopted in mining-community relationships and the current fiscal legislation provides for redistributive mechanisms. However, the mining industry has also faced a state of growing unrest and hostility from local interest groups.

A clue about how to interpret these reactions can be provided by econometric analyses on the impacts of mining activities on employment opportunities, access to public goods, income level and diversification of people living in mining areas.

These quantitative analyses could be compared with qualitative information on the perceived and expected effects in order to assess to what extent the protests against the mining operations are due to over-expectations and lack of information by local groups or to actual negative impacts on their well-being.