Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review

Farm-to-market roads (FMRs) provide ‘last kilometer’ connectivity for bringing inputs to farmers and taking their production to distant markets. The quality and quantity of these roads has a big impact on transport costs for farmers; good roads clo...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	RURAL ROADS FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS SUBNATIONAL EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW DECENTRALIZATION TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE LOGISTICS
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spelling	okr-10986-363372021-10-13T05:10:48Z Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review World Bank RURAL ROADS FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS SUBNATIONAL EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW DECENTRALIZATION TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE LOGISTICS Farm-to-market roads (FMRs) provide ‘last kilometer’ connectivity for bringing inputs to farmers and taking their production to distant markets. The quality and quantity of these roads has a big impact on transport costs for farmers; good roads close to farms lower production costs and raise the prices that farmers get for their products. As part of the government’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ initiative, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has accorded FMRs high priority and has invested heavily in recent years in roads to enhance accessibility and trigger economic activity in remote agricultural areas. In recent years (2019–21), FMR projects received about 18 percent of the DA’s total budget. FMR construction is also a component of several special projects. For instance, under locally funded projects, total constructed FMRs as of 2017 have reached 392 km, while foreign-assisted projects have built an estimated 2,072 km as of December 2017. The World Bank was requested to carry out a rapid Public Expenditure Review (PER) focusing on the DA FMR Development Program. While this exercise would be useful under any circumstances, it is especially timely in view of the ‘Mandanas ruling’ of the Supreme Court. This ruling requires the central government to increase the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), the share of government tax revenue going to the Local Government Units (LGUs), starting in 2022. Since it will be sharing more revenue with the LGUs, the central government intends to devolve more responsibilities to them for administering and funding projects and programs. Exactly how this devolution will affect the FMR Development Program is yet to be precisely defined, and the PER is intended to help plan this process. 2021-10-12T15:16:21Z 2021-10-12T15:16:21Z 2021-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/988401632720737734/Mandanas-Ruling-and-Potential-Implications-for-the-Farm-to-Market-Road-Development-Program-A-Public-Expenditure-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36337 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review East Asia and Pacific Philippines
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description	Farm-to-market roads (FMRs) provide ‘last kilometer’ connectivity for bringing inputs to farmers and taking their production to distant markets. The quality and quantity of these roads has a big impact on transport costs for farmers; good roads close to farms lower production costs and raise the prices that farmers get for their products. As part of the government’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ initiative, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has accorded FMRs high priority and has invested heavily in recent years in roads to enhance accessibility and trigger economic activity in remote agricultural areas. In recent years (2019–21), FMR projects received about 18 percent of the DA’s total budget. FMR construction is also a component of several special projects. For instance, under locally funded projects, total constructed FMRs as of 2017 have reached 392 km, while foreign-assisted projects have built an estimated 2,072 km as of December 2017. The World Bank was requested to carry out a rapid Public Expenditure Review (PER) focusing on the DA FMR Development Program. While this exercise would be useful under any circumstances, it is especially timely in view of the ‘Mandanas ruling’ of the Supreme Court. This ruling requires the central government to increase the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), the share of government tax revenue going to the Local Government Units (LGUs), starting in 2022. Since it will be sharing more revenue with the LGUs, the central government intends to devolve more responsibilities to them for administering and funding projects and programs. Exactly how this devolution will affect the FMR Development Program is yet to be precisely defined, and the PER is intended to help plan this process.
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title	Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review
title_short	Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review
title_full	Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review
title_fullStr	Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review
title_full_unstemmed	Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review
title_sort	mandanas ruling and potential implications for the farm-to-market road development program : a public expenditure review
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
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Mandanas Ruling and Potential Implications for the Farm-to-Market Road Development Program : A Public Expenditure Review

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