Public expenditures for agricultural and rural development in Africa

1. Introduction / Tewodaj Mogues and Samuel Benin -- 2. Public spending for agriculture in Africa : definition, measures, and trends / Shenggen Fan and Anuja Saurkar -- 3. Agricultural growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments : concepts and techniques for undertaking assessments / Samuel Benin, Tewodaj Mogues, and Shenggen Fan -- 4. Agricultural public spending in Nigeria / Tewodaj Mogues. [et al.] -- 5. Public expenditures and agricultural productivity growth in Ghana / Samuel Benin. [et al.] -- 6. Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania : evidence from household survey data / Shenggen Fan, David Nyange, and Neetha Rao -- 7. Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda / Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang -- 8. The bang for the birr : public spending and rural welfare in Ethiopia / Tewodaj Mogues -- 9. Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 / Shenggen Fan. [et al.] -- 10. Agricultural and rural public spending in Africa : conclusions and implications / Samuel Benin and Tewodaj Mogues.