Investing In African Agriculture to Halve Poverty By 2015

Shenggen Fan, Michael Johnson, Anuja Saurkar and Tsitsi Makombe

No 42807, IFPRI Discussion Papers from CGIAR, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.42807

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