The weapon of every growing economy can be associated with governance, as good governance put all action and inaction in one basket and make sure that is channel through transparent, effective, and accountable to provide enabling atmosphere for the economy to strive for the betterment of the citizen. It is on this remark, this study investigates the effect of governance in the agricultural expenditure in Nigeria, Error Correction mechanism was employed on the time-series data collected from National statistics bulletins and the empirical results revealed that accountability and corruption control have a positive and statistically significant effect on the agricultural expenditure in the short run within the sample period. However, the agricultural output was found to have a decline effect on the agricultural expenditure in the short run in Nigeria. This study, therefore, recommended that the government at all levels should ensure that corrupt governance is fought or reduced to a minimum level in order to achieve an effective allocation of funds to the agricultural sector to improve performance and contribution to economic growth and development. Accountability should be adopted in every level of government to reduce waste, encourage competence and consistency, liable, responsible to promote investment, and ethics.
This text presents a critical analysis on the financial and effectiveness of public expenditure allocated to European agriculture. It deals with the proposals made by the European Commission under the health check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). To provide some answers to the questions raised by his interlocutors (European parliament), the author draws on his analysis of agricultural policy and simulations applied to the French Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). The first part deals with the model of farm support. After recalling the good efficiency of previous CAP reforms to control agricultural expenditure, it presents how the decoupling is applied in various EU member states. The second part deals with the role, present and future, of the various intervention instruments of the CAP. The third part and the conclusion invite to change substantially the terms of the CAP support in a long term (after 2015). The segmentation between the first and second pillar could be modified, as well as the issue of the modalities of co-financing. The proposal to allow member states to move towards a flatter rate of the single payment scheme, the Article 68 and the modulation are temporarily useful before 2015. They do not, however, sufficient to legitimate decoupled support over the long term. It is therefore important that direct payments become more directly related to environmental and territorial services. ; Cette communication présente une analyse critique du financement et de l'efficacité des dépenses publiques allouées à l'agriculture européenne. Il s'inscrit dans le cadre de la réflexion engagée suite aux propositions faites par la Commission européenne au titre du bilan de santé de la Politique agricole commune (PAC). Pour apporter des éléments de réflexion à ses interlocuteurs du Parlement européen, l'auteur s'appuie sur son analyse de la politique agricole et des simulations conduites sur les données du RICA français. La première partie traite du modèle de soutien aux exploitations agricoles. Après avoir rappelé la bonne efficacité des précédentes réformes de la PAC quant à la maîtrise budgétaire, elle précise les logiques d'application du découplage dans les différents Etats membres de l'UE. La seconde partie traite du rôle des différents instruments de régulation de la PAC. La troisième partie et la conclusion s'inscrivent dans l'optique d'une évolution des modalités de soutien de la PAC à l'horizon 2015. La segmentation entre les mesures du premier et du second pilier pourrait être modifiée, de même que la question des modalités du cofinancement. L'uniformisation progressive du paiement unique, l'utilisation de l'article 68 et le renforcement de la modulation sont des étapes temporairement utiles. Elles ne suffiront cependant pas à rendre légitimes les soutiens découplés sur le long terme. Il importe donc que les paiements directs découplés soient, demain, plus directement liés à l'intensité des services environnementaux et territoriaux fournis.
Global experience with pro-poor growth and empirical work spanning India, Benin and Malawi demonstrates the importance of agricultural expenditure for poverty reduction in poor rural areas, while also pointing to the need for complementary non farm sector growth. This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDGs) in Zimbabwe. This method uses growth poverty and growth expenditure elasticities to estimate the financial resources required to meet the MDGs. The paper attempts to address a key knowledge gap by improving estimation of first MDG agricultural expenditure at country level.
This study examines the short run and long relationship between agricultural expenditure, health expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria. This study was motivated due to the lack of sufficient studies regarding this subject matter in recent times. Consequently, Data were collected from CBN Statistical Bulletin from 1981 to 2016. Relevant pre-estimation tests such as unit root and Bound tests were carried out because all the study variables were integrated of order zero and one. Estimated results from ARDL and ECM models established the existence of a short-run and long-run relationship between the variables of interest in Nigeria. While the error correction model reveals that about 19 percent of total disequilibrium due to external shock in the previous year is corrected in the current year. Therefore, it will take about five (5) years for the system to adjust back to its long-run equilibrium path. Results further showed that there is a significant positive relationship between agricultural expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria. However, there is a significant negative relationship between health expenditure and economic growth in the long run. Finally, policymakers in Nigeria should allocate substantial budget towards health and agricultural sectors in Nigeria.
This paper is part of a set of country case studies that take a detailed look at public expenditures in agriculture and at how these expenditure data 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 enable the use of existing government accounts to identify levels and compositions of country-level agricultural spending data, with clearer knowledge of what these data are in fact accounting for. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; D.1 Agriculture's role in national development strategy; CRP2 ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
Abstract Fiscal policy has been used by various governments to promote economic growth. The effectiveness of government expenditure on economic growth depends on recipient sector of government expenditure. This study contributes to this research area by investigating the effect of government agricultural expenditure on economic growth in the Kingdom of Lesotho. The government of Lesotho identified the agricultural sector as a productive sector that is central to the achievement the economic growth goal and development plan. Descriptive statistics and inferential econometric techniques (ARDL, DOLS and VEC Granger causality) over time-series data for the period 1982-2019 were utilized in this study. The results suggest that while current level and pattern of government agriculture expenditure cannot stimulate the desired economic growth and prosperity in the country, domestic investment appear to be a stimulant of the desired economic prosperity. Consequently, any economic growth policy or strategy that is premised on government agricultural sector expenditure would fail. Thus study recommends that countries including Lesotho should prioritize sustained increase in domestic investment.
This text presents a critical analysis on the financial and effectiveness of public expenditure allocated to European agriculture. It deals with the proposals made by the European Commission under the health check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). To provide some answers to the questions raised by his interlocutors (European parliament), the author draws on his analysis of agricultural policy and simulations applied to the French Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). The first part deals with the model of farm support. After recalling the good efficiency of previous CAP reforms to control agricultural expenditure, it presents how the decoupling is applied in various EU member states. The second part deals with the role, present and future, of the various intervention instruments of the CAP. The third part and the conclusion invite to change substantially the terms of the CAP support in a long term (after 2015). The segmentation between the first and second pillar could be modified, as well as the issue of the modalities of co-financing. The proposal to allow member states to move towards a flatter rate of the single payment scheme, the Article 68 and the modulation are temporarily useful before 2015. They do not, however, sufficient to legitimate decoupled support over the long term. It is therefore important that direct payments become more directly related to environmental and territorial services. ; Cette communication présente une analyse critique du financement et de l'efficacité des dépenses publiques allouées à l'agriculture européenne. Il s'inscrit dans le cadre de la réflexion engagée suite aux propositions faites par la Commission européenne au titre du bilan de santé de la Politique agricole commune (PAC). Pour apporter des éléments de réflexion à ses interlocuteurs du Parlement européen, l'auteur s'appuie sur son analyse de la politique agricole et des simulations conduites sur les données du RICA français. La première partie traite du modèle de soutien aux exploitations agricoles. Après avoir ...
This paper provides a qualitative analysis that highlights the implications on agricultural services of a key stage in decentralisation reforms in Ghana. We assess the status of agricultural expenditure decentralisation and draw out the likely implications for agricultural service delivery and national strategies. The study finds that agricultural officers at all levels (national, regional and district) had concerns about the implementation of the new decentralisation reform. These included budget cuts and delays in releases that coincided with the reform period; the transfer of staff from the civil service to the local government service; and a sense that agriculture may receive less attention when allocation of government resources becomes the preserve of assemblies and district chief executives, rather than the central agricultural ministry. The structural changes also meant that agricultural local government staff now needed to learn to 'market' the value of their public services to local government leadership, in order to protect resources for agriculture. The decentralisation reform also necessitated new public expenditure reporting practices to ensure a clear overview of sectoral spending across government tiers.
This paper provides a qualitative analysis that highlights the implications on agricultural services of a key stage in decentralisation reforms in Ghana. We assess the status of agricultural expenditure decentralisation and draw out the likely implications for agricultural service delivery and national strategies. The study finds that agricultural officers at all levels (national, regional and district) had concerns about the implementation of the new decentralisation reform. These included budget cuts and delays in releases that coincided with the reform period; the transfer of staff from the civil service to the local government service; and a sense that agriculture may receive less attention when allocation of government resources becomes the preserve of assemblies and district chief executives, rather than the central agricultural ministry. The structural changes also meant that agricultural local government staff now needed to learn to 'market' the value of their public services to local government leadership, in order to protect resources for agriculture. The decentralisation reform also necessitated new public expenditure reporting practices to ensure a clear overview of sectoral spending across government tiers.
This paper is one of the four diagnostic studies initiated to better understand the black box of public expenditure statistics and how it varies across countries. Particularly, this paper analyzes how government expenditures in agriculture are captured in Malawi's public financial accounts. It is anticipated that by providing a clear exposition of the manner in which public agriculture expenditures are identified and aggregated using the existing coding structure, this paper would facilitate easy understanding of the levels and composition of the public agricultural expenditures. Such an understanding would ultimately be necessary for determining the link between such allocations and their impact on agricultural growth and hence economic growth. The report starts with a brief background on reforms in the public financial accounts starting with the adoption of the structural adjustment in the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the budget and expenditure classification and coding system and a description of the public agriculture expenditure in Malawi. The consolidation and aggregation of data are based on the administrative, program, economic, and functional classification. One of the main findings show that overtime reforms to classification and coding system ensured compliance to international standards as provided in the 2001 Government Finance Statistics of International Monetary Fund and better linkages of expenditure items to the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; PIM 2 Science policy and incentives for innovation; D Transforming Agriculture; DCA ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
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 enable the use of existing government accounts to identify levels and compositions of government agriculture expenditures, with better understanding of what these data are in fact accounting for. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2 ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
