Read the same book, along with the much denser "El Otro Sendero" (the other path), which focuses more on Peru alone, and to date I haven't found a better detail

Read the same book, along with the much denser "El Otro Sendero" (the other path), which focuses more on Peru alone, and to date I haven't found a better detailed chain of reasoning for why countries get rich and developed across the board, or stay poor, or as in many cases, get wealthier but with enormous discrepancies in who accumulates the wealth and how it's achieved/used.