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 …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on … agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a … comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at different administrative levels. The paper found that public expenditure for …

"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 …

heterogeneity. All nutrients exhibit positive expenditure elasticities in both rural and urban areas; however, as expected, the … expenditure elasticities of all nutrients are higher in urban areas than in rural areas. In rural areas, strategies to improve …

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 …

national level, allocate 10 percent of national budgets to the agricultural sector, and improve overall policy efficiency …

such as expenditures or income. Nonetheless, little work has empirically compared poverty measurements based on assets and … expenditures. This paper uses panel data from Ethiopia to generate an asset-based poverty classification scheme. Regression results …

have been brought together in a new book, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries …

This paper addresses the determinants of public expenditure policies, by reviewing theories and empirical …