"The Minister of Finance of an African country needs to reallocate the country's public investment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving the proportion of the poor and hungry by 2015: Should the minister increase investment in health and education, with the view that...

1. Introduction / Tewodaj Mogues and Samuel Benin -- 2. Public spending for agriculture in Africa : definition, measures, and trends / Shenggen Fan and Anuja Saurkar -- 3. Agricultural growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments : concepts and techniques for undertaking...