Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015
2008
Fan, Shenggen; Johnson, Michael; Saurkar, Anuja; Makombe, Tsitsi | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-4863 Fan, Shenggen; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-2791 Johnson, Michael; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5297-7428 Makombe, Tsitsi
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 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate the financial resources required to meet the MDG1, considering both the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural spending on poverty reduction. The paper attempts to address a key knowledge gap by improving estimation of MDG costs at both the regional and country levels." -- from Author's Abstract
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