Estimating public agricultural expenditure requirements

Benin, Samuel; Fan, Shenggen; Johnson, Michael E. 2012. Estimating public agricultural expenditure requirements. In Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies, ed. Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Samuel Benin, and Shenggen Fan. Chapter 3. Pg. 50-70. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153960

This chapter outlines an approach to estimating the public agricultural financial resources needed to bring about a certain rate of agricultural growth. Studies that estimate the public financial resources required to achieve specific development objectives have focused on costing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Public agricultural financial resources needed to achieve specific agricultural development objectives or broader targets are dealt with indirectly in a few studies only.