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Public Expenditure towards Rural Areas

The Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has pinpointed the importance of the reform process of the State and institutionality modernization intending to strengthen sectoral public management. Under this point of view, FAO has carried out various studies on public expenditure towards rural areas since 2001 to date.

The main purpose of this work has been to analyze the level and composition of expenditures made by the different governments of the Region addressing agricultural and rural sector development. This work has also permitted the identification of the main instruments by which resources are assigned to create the framework of standards, conditions and incentives for sectoral development, and complementarily provide rural areas with infrastructure and public assets.

Currently, FAO counts with a database which summarizes public expenditure for rural areas between 1985 and 2001 for 20 countries of the Region.

		Presentation by Mr. Gustavo Gordillo, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF Format = 503 kb, only in spanish version)
		Database
		International Seminar “Trends and Challenges in Public Expenditure Management for Agricultural and Rural Development in Latin America and the Caribbean”, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 19 to 22 May 2003.
		Workshop of Experts: “Rural Public Expenditure, Programmes on Rural Development and Social Policies”, 21 to 22 February 2005.

All documents in Spanish.
For further information, please contact Paul Lewin at: Gasto-Publico-Rural@fao.org