Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the … generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short …

allow developing countries to improve the management of public expenditures so as to raise the chances of meeting the income … growth and poverty reduction; (4) laid out the theory for the measurement of the degree of convergence of public expenditures … single-score concept, (b) the evaluation of the quality and efficiency of public expenditures in social services sectors in …

irrigation infrastructure. Our model takes into account the integration of markets and migration processes. We find that …

"Public spending on agriculture in Nigeria is exceedingly low. Less than 2 percent of total federal expenditure was … also falls far behind in agricultural expenditure by international standards, even when accounting for the relationship … between agricultural expenditures and national income. The spending that is extant is highly concentrated in a few areas …

This paper is part of four country case studies that take a detailed look at public expenditures in agriculture, and at … how the data on expenditures are captured in government financial and budget accounts. The objective of these studies is … to unpack the black box of public expenditure statistics reported in various cross-country datasets, and ultimately to …