Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system

This paper is one of the four diagnostic studies initiated to better understand the black box of public expenditure statistics and how it varies across countries. Particularly, this paper analyzes how government expenditures in agriculture are captured in Malawi’s public financial accounts. It is an...

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Autor principal: Mwabutwa, Chance
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149670
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description This paper is one of the four diagnostic studies initiated to better understand the black box of public expenditure statistics and how it varies across countries. Particularly, this paper analyzes how government expenditures in agriculture are captured in Malawi’s public financial accounts. It is anticipated that by providing a clear exposition of the manner in which public agriculture expenditures are identified and aggregated using the existing coding structure, this paper would facilitate easy understanding of the levels and composition of the public agricultural expenditures. Such an understanding would ultimately be necessary for determining the link between such allocations and their impact on agricultural growth and hence economic growth. The report starts with a brief background on reforms in the public financial accounts starting with the adoption of the structural adjustment in the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the budget and expenditure classification and coding system and a description of the public agriculture expenditure in Malawi. The consolidation and aggregation of data are based on the administrative, program, economic, and functional classification. One of the main findings show that overtime reforms to classification and coding system ensured compliance to international standards as provided in the 2001 Government Finance Statistics of International Monetary Fund and better linkages of expenditure items to the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy.
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spelling CGSpace1496702025-11-06T05:38:27Z Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system Mwabutwa, Chance agricultural sector investment classification public expenditure This paper is one of the four diagnostic studies initiated to better understand the black box of public expenditure statistics and how it varies across countries. Particularly, this paper analyzes how government expenditures in agriculture are captured in Malawi’s public financial accounts. It is anticipated that by providing a clear exposition of the manner in which public agriculture expenditures are identified and aggregated using the existing coding structure, this paper would facilitate easy understanding of the levels and composition of the public agricultural expenditures. Such an understanding would ultimately be necessary for determining the link between such allocations and their impact on agricultural growth and hence economic growth. The report starts with a brief background on reforms in the public financial accounts starting with the adoption of the structural adjustment in the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the budget and expenditure classification and coding system and a description of the public agriculture expenditure in Malawi. The consolidation and aggregation of data are based on the administrative, program, economic, and functional classification. One of the main findings show that overtime reforms to classification and coding system ensured compliance to international standards as provided in the 2001 Government Finance Statistics of International Monetary Fund and better linkages of expenditure items to the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy. 2015-05-13 2024-08-01T02:49:43Z 2024-08-01T02:49:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149670 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151033 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149541 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150042 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150208 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Mwabutwa, Chance. 2015. Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1442. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149670
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Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title_full Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title_fullStr Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title_full_unstemmed Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title_short Investigating public financial accounts and coding system in Malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
title_sort investigating public financial accounts and coding system in malawi and measuring agricultural expenditures within the system
topic agricultural sector
investment
classification
public expenditure
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149670
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