Public Expenditure in the Context of Agriculture

Although agriculture is a private activity, a large amount of government resources are spent on the sector. Adequate public expenditure analysis is critical for assessing the efficiency and equity of spending allocations, and for guiding future investment priorities in the sector.

 

The materials summarized here cover World Bank core sector documents and other relevant sector materials, recent agriculture and rural development public expenditure reviews, regional sector analysis, and analytical work done by other development organizations. The list of references is only suggested and it is confined to those resources that relate to public expenditure issues in agriculture in general, both across functional and economic classifications of spending.