Government expenditure on agriculture and agricultural performance in developing countries.

Government expenditure on agriculture and agricultural performance in developing countries by Dimitris Diakosavvas Download PDF EPUB FB2

GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUTION. *Dr Dimitris Diakosavvas is a Lecturer at the Development and Project Planning Centre of Bradford University.

The paper was stimulated by a number of assignments with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United by: 3.

This paper endeavours to estimate the impact of government expenditure (on agriculture) on the performance of the agricultural sector. An inter‐country production function is estimated for a sample of thirty‐five developing countries, pooling cross‐section and time‐series data over the.

government agricultural expenditure on economic growth for the period to Background of this study In Zimbabwe, and most developing countries, agriculture is the backbone of economic growth and development. The agricultural sector is the. GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL abstract.

Despite many studies, government expenditure still remains an important issue in global debates. Over the past three decades, government spending has been growing at rapid rate in Kenya. The objective of this study was to examine effect of government expenditure on agriculture output performance in Kenya.

The studyFile Size: KB. government expenditure on agriculture were used as indicators of government expenditure on agriculture. From the findings; agricultural output, government expenditure and GDP are positively related.

It was found that a significant relationship exist between government expenditure in the agricultural sector and the economic growth in Nigeria.

developing countries. Agriculture has also regarded as the engine and panacea to economic government expenditure on agricultural reduces poverty both by increasing mean consumption and improving there has been a conflicting view about spending on agriculture; the performance of the agricultural sector had fared better than it was before.

Government increased its public financing to agriculture sector and the development expenditures in agriculture increased from USD billion in to USD billion in (MINAGRI ) and agriculture sector has been a major source of growth, accounting for 34%.

The objective of this paper is to estimate the link between the contribution of agriculture to GDP and the ratio of government expenditure to total budgetary expenditure, using a VAR model. The empirical evidence shows that government expenditure policy and the rate of inflation have a positive impact on the performance of the agriculture sector in terms of its contribution to GDP.

to analyze impact of Federal Government agricultural expenditure on agricultural productivity in Nigeria. By the time it is completed we shall be in a position to ascertain how much has been achieved in this regard. Literature Review Government Involvement in Agriculture in Nigeria Government spending plays an important role in agricultural.

In the neoclassical growth model of Solow (), productive government expenditure may affect the incentive to invest in human or physical capital, but in the long-run this affects only the equilibrium factor ratios, not the growth rate, although in general there will be transitional growth effects.

of fiscal management and other expenditures. Government expenditure is usually categorized as recurrent and capital expenditure (Ogba, ). Agriculture can simply be defined as the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals for the purpose of feeding for survival. This definition in itself point out the relevance of agriculture in every.

The developed regions (Europe and other developed, which refers to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United States) allocated the lowest share of central government expenditure to agriculture, both series fluctuating around 1%. Overall Spending on Broad Agriculture in Liberia 35 Internal Funds 35 External Funds 40 Overall Expenditure on Agriculture and the Maputo Target 44 Composition of Expenditure on Agriculture in Liberia 45 Composition of Government Expenditure on Agriculture culture.

In addition, government interventions at all stages of production, consumption, and mar-keting of agricultural products and inputs, though undertaken to improve the efficiency of markets, have frequently resulted in greater inefficiencies and lower output and incomes.

As a consequence, farm incomes in many developing countries are. Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research looking how the composition of public spending affects key development outcomes in the.

government expenditure on agriculture and agricultural performance in developing countries: an empirical evalution Diakosavvas, D. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 41 (3) –. When African leaders launched the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) in Maputo inthey committed to spend 10 percent of their national expenditure budget on the Trends and composition of government expenditures on agriculture in Ghana, | IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Data are collected directly from countries using a FAO questionnaire, which was developed in partnership with the International Monetary Fund, as the IMF collects global data on government expenditures and is the international organization responsible for developing guidelines on the Classification of Functions of Government (COFOG).

This study examines the impact of government expenditure on agricultural sector and economic growth in Pakistan over the period with time series data collected from Pakistan Statistical.

Government Involvement in Agriculture in Nigeria. Government spending plays an important role in agricultural development [18,19]. This is based on the economic ideology that agricultural development is a process that involves adoption by farmers of new production practices and the acquisition of new input materials [2].Compared with many African countries, the government’s expenditure in agriculture as a share of total government expenditure and in proportion to agricultural GDP is small in Nigeria.

For the periodagricultural spending as a share of total spending averaged only percent.(Raskin et al., ). Agriculture provides essential nourishment for people and is the necessary.

basis for many economic activities. In most developing countries, agriculture accounts for between 20–60 per cent of GDP. In agriculture-based developing countries, it generates on .