IMF Staff Country Reports

Niger: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

April 30, 2013

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International Monetary Fund. African Dept. "Niger: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper", IMF Staff Country Reports 2013, 106 (2013), accessed 12/6/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484377345.002

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Summary

Niger’s new Poverty Reduction Strategy (PDES) represents its overarching reference framework for the government’s development agenda. It also proposes changes in policy orientation and institutional arrangements to respond to recent developments in Niger and in the subregion. The PDES was developed in an inclusive participatory process. Overall, it provides a comprehensive analysis of development challenges and a plan to achieve accelerated sustainable growth, identifies key risks to the achievements of the objectives as well as mitigating measures.

Subject: Education, Expenditure, Food security, Inclusive growth, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Africa, CR, Food security, Global, government, government policy, ISCR, PDES, PDES baseline scenario, PDES implementation, PDES priority program, PDES program, PDES target, Poverty reduction strategy, prioritized PDES action plan, West Africa

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