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IFPRI3; ISI; CRP2; F Strengthening institutions and governance; D Transforming Agriculture ; DSGD; PIM ; PR ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

This paper addresses the determinants of public expenditure policies, by reviewing theories and empirical investigations of what features explain the budget process and how the various attributes of actors—including politicians, bureaucrats, interest groups, and donors—and of institutions and political and economic governance environments affect the prioritization of public investments. It draws conclusions with regard to the determinants of agricultural public investments. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Theme 6; Subtheme 6.1; GRP3 ; DSGD

Contents: 1. Introduction Tewodaj Mogues and Samuel Benin 2. Public Spending for Agriculture in Africa: Definition, Measures and Trends Shenggen Fan and Anuja Saurkar 3. Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction Impacts of Public Investments: Assessment of Concepts and Techniques Samuel Benin, Tewodaj Mogues and Shenggen Fan 4. Agricultural Public Spending in Nigeria Tewodaj Mogues, Michael Morris, Lev Freinkman, Abimbola Adubi and Simeon Ehui 5. Public Expenditures and Agricultural Productivity Growth in Ghana Samuel Benin, Tewodaj Mogues, Godsway Cudjoe and Josee Randriamamonjy 6. Public Investment and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania: Evidence from Household Survey Data Shenggen Fan, David Nyange and Neetha Rao 7. Public Expenditure, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rural Uganda Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang 8. The Bang for the Birr: Public Spending and Rural Welfare in Ethiopia Tewodaj Mogues 9. Investing in African Agriculture to Halve Poverty By 2015 Shenggen Fan, Michael Johnson, Anuja Saurkar and Tsitsi Makombe 10. Agricultural and Rural Public Spending in Africa: Conclusions and Implications Samuel Benin and Tewodaj Mogues ; PR ; IFPRI5; SPEED ; DSGD ; xxii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

In recent years access to safe and reliable water supplies has received increased government attention in Ethiopia. As a result, the national coverage rate for this service has gradually improved. Yet millions of people in rural areas still do not get drinking water from an improved water source. While expanding improved water source schemes is generally essential, it is equally important to ensure that the schemes have increased users' satisfaction with water quality and availability for everyday use. Using household survey data and employing univariate and bivariate probit models, this paper attempts to investigate the effect of access to an improved water source on users' satisfaction with both quality and availability of water. The study findings suggest that access to an improved water source significantly raised household satisfaction with both quality and availability of water. However, the effect of the improved water source on users' satisfaction was slightly lower for water availability than for water quality. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; DSGD