Niger: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: 2004 and 2005 Annual Progress Reports: Joint Staff Advisory Note
IMF Staff Country Reports, February 1, 2007
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Bibliographic details
- Published: February 1, 2007
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451828764.002
Summary of assessment
- The document is a Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) 2004 and 2005 Annual Progress Reports for Niger.
- Overall progress in the implementation of the PRSP in 2004 and 2005 was described as "broadly positive."
- Progress assessment explicitly took into account adverse shocks: a drought and locust plague in the second half of 2004, and a severe food crisis in the second and third quarters of 2005.
Key statistic
- A Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire completed in 2005 indicated that the poverty level was at 62.1 percent.
Thematic scope (as listed)
- Budget execution and treasury management
- Education
- Government debt management
- Health
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction strategy
- Public financial management (PFM)
Keywords (as listed)
- Africa
- authorities' PRS
- Budget execution and treasury management
- computer interface
- CR
- Global
- government
- Government debt management
- government of Niger
- government plan
- ISCR
- poverty level
- Poverty reduction strategy
- priority PRSP sector
- program-budget elaboration
- PRS objective
- PRSP II target
- PRSP Progress Report
- reform transport service
- West Africa