Kenya 16.60 13.91 Lesotho 10.16 –2.37 Madagascar 19.10 21.86
Country Malawi
Mali
Mauritania Morocco
Mozambique Namibia Niger
Nigeria Seychelles
Sierra Leone Swaziland Tanzania Togo
Tunisia Uganda Zambia
Annual average growth in
public spending
Total 12.13
11.09 0.20 8.52 9.26 8.94
–1.36 -0.10
Sao Tome and Principe 28.09 Senegal
11.07 –2.36 0.52
12.25 15.20 5.48 5.30 0.79 2.29
Agriculture 36.44
6.76
–4.42 –7.66
–20.12 –1.64
–13.96 13.55 56.47 23.33 5.80
–1.41 20.99 17.72 14.48 3.85
–4.95 10.56
Source: Authors’ calculations based on government expenditure data in local currency units obtained from the Africa Union Commission (AU / NEPAD 2008) and the SPEED database (IFPRI 2010). Data on purchasing power parity were obtained from World Bank 2010. Notes: The annual average growth rate of public nonagricultural expenditure can be extrapolated using the values in the “Total” and “Agriculture” columns or obtained using the original data on public nonagricultural expenditure. The magnitude of the growth depends on the currency units of the expenditure data. We use international dollar purchasing power parity to enhance comparison of the underlying expenditures across countries.