Cambodia : The Agriculture, Irrigation, and Rural Roads Sectors -- Public Expenditure Review
This report focuses on areas with highest potential efficiency gains to increase the value for money from investments in core public goods and services such as extension, irrigation and rural roads. This is a first attempt to carry out such an anal...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24915526/cambodia-integrated-fiduciary-assessment-agriculture-irrigation-rural-roads-sectors-public-expenditure-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22509 |
| Summary: | This report focuses on areas with
highest potential efficiency gains to increase the value for
money from investments in core public goods and services
such as extension, irrigation and rural roads. This is a
first attempt to carry out such an analysis in Cambodia, and
even in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Based on extensive
data gathering and surveys, this chapter analyzes the
efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural sector
expenditures in Cambodia and assesses various options for
increasing the impact of government expenditures on
agricultural growth. Other challenges include an excessive
focus on rehabilitating primary irrigation infrastructure
and a neglect of secondary and tertiary systems, a lack of
maintenance of irrigation and rural roads, and the slow pace
of developing or adopting new technologies to reduce future
maintenance costs. There is also a need to better prioritize
agricultural and related infrastructure expenditures, both
by type and by geographic location, to maximize their impact
on growth. The rest of the report is organized as follows.
Chapter two presents recent developments in the agriculture
sector of Cambodia. Chapter three gives an overview of
sectoral expenditure trends over the last decade. The budget
process and its relationship to sectoral development
strategies is discussed in chapter three. Chapter four
discusses the novel contribution of the AgPER in analyzing
the efficiency and effectiveness of government spending
using benefit-cost analysis to examine select public
investments. Chapter five discusses how likely climate
change trends may affect future agriculture expenditures and
suggests some priority areas for public spending. The
conclusion section summarizes the major findings and policy
recommendations of the report. |
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