Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Review with a Focus on Agriculture
This report examines agricultural spending in Zimbabwe. This public expenditure review (PER) is the sixth in a series focusing on local government service delivery, state-owned enterprises and parastatals, education, social protection, and cross-cu...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/784411569840247307/Zimbabwe-Public-Expenditure-Review-with-a-Focus-on-Agriculture http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32506 |
| Summary: | This report examines agricultural
spending in Zimbabwe. This public expenditure review (PER)
is the sixth in a series focusing on local government
service delivery, state-owned enterprises and parastatals,
education, social protection, and cross-cutting issues. The
PERs are intended to support the Government of Zimbabwe in
improving its fiscal management. Agriculture plays a
critical role in Zimbabwe’s economy. About two thirds of
Zimbabweans work in agriculture and many Zimbabweans,
directly or indirectly, depend on it. Public spending on
agriculture needs to be understood against the backdrop of
Zimbabwe’s history of land reform. Between 2011 and 2015,
spending on agriculture had been broadly comparable to other
countries. Government introduced the new program, command
agriculture, in 2016-17 in order to reverse decline in
agricultural production. Sustainable agricultural spending
cannot be separated from structural reforms to raise
agricultural productivity and rebuilding of macroeconomic
resilience. Some steps to rebuild resilience have already
been undertaken in 2019, but the fiscal cost of agriculture
has proven difficult to contain. |
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