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Mexico - Analisis del gasto publico en el desarrollo agricola y ruralThis study examines agricultural and rural development (ARD) public expenditures in Mexico. The study is based on federal public expenditures. The study is structured in six parts as follows: the first part presents the Mexican ARD context in terms of policy and performance. The second part dissects the ARD public budget, classifying expenditure programs in various ways so as to provide an overview of the scope and composition of ARD spending. The third part analyses efficiency issues by means of international and state-level comparisons of agriculture public expenditures (APE) and agriculture performance indicators. The main focus of the assessment is on APE, but these are evaluated within the broader context of rural development policies, considering the degree of consistency and complementarily between the two sets of policies. The fourth part investigates equity issues emerging from ARD expenditures. Equity is evaluated at the level of geographic units (states and municipalities) and of individuals and households. In addition to assessing the equity impacts of the main rural programs, an effort is made to evaluate the overall equity implications of the entire APE and of rural development expenditure (RDE). The fifth part contains a brief analysis of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system of ARD programs and of selected institutional aspects, and highlights some issues. Finally, the sixth part offers reflections on possible directions for moving forwards both for the overall evolution of ARD expenditures and for some of the main programs.
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The United Republic of Tanzania : Evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Process and Arrangements under the Poverty Reduction and Growth FacilityThis evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) processes in Tanzania was jointly undertaken by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF. The goal of the evaluation, as emphasized in the joint terms of reference, is to inform the policies and internal processes of the World Bank and the IMF, but not to evaluate the performance of the government. The report is laid out as follows: section two provides a background to the poverty situation in Tanzania as well as the economic and political context. The section also looks at the national strategies and processes for policy formulation that preceded the introduction of the PRSP and the PRGF. Section three discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper process in Tanzania, starting with a look at the relevance of the process to the key development challenges facing the country and then turns to the issue of how the underlying principles of the PRSP have been applied. It concludes with an analysis of the preliminary results.
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Republic of Mozambique : Evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Process and Arrangements Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth FacilityThe International Monetary Fund (IMF)
 and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy
 Paper (PRSP) process in 1999 to strengthen the poverty
 alleviation focus of their assistance to low-income
 countries. At the IMF, the introduction of the PRSP was
 accompanied by the transformation of the Enhanced Structural
 Adjustment Facility (ESAF), the concessional lending window,
 into the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), with
 a view to giving a more central role to poverty reduction
 and pro-poor growth considerations in the design of
 IMF-supported programs in low-income countries. The rest of
 the report is organized as follows. Part two provides
 background information on poverty incidence in Mozambique,
 as well as on political and economic developments since the
 early 1990s. The relevance of the PRSP approach to
 Mozambique s situation, application of the underlying
 principles, and preliminary evidence on results, are
 examined in part three. The effectiveness of IMF assistance,
 including alignment of the PRGF and technical assistance to
 PRSP objectives is assessed in part four. Part five
 considers the effectiveness of World Bank support, also
 including alignment of that support to the objectives of the
 PRSP approach. Part six reviews IMF-World Bank collaboration
 in relation to the PRSP process, and part seven presents the
 main conclusions and lessons.