IMF Staff Country Reports

Niger: Request for a New Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility: Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Niger

May 14, 2012

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International Monetary Fund. "Niger: Request for a New Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility: Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Niger", IMF Staff Country Reports 2012, 109 (2012), accessed 12/27/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475503562.002

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Summary

Niger’s medium-term fiscal policy aims to support the growth strategy by creating fiscal space for increasing development spending while maintaining external debt sustainability. Economic activity in recent years has been affected by large swings in agricultural production. The authorities’ program is aimed at maintaining macroeconomic stability while increasing resilience to shocks; strengthening public finance and debt management; and supporting private and financial sector development. Medium-term fiscal policy will aim at maintaining debt sustainability while creating room for increased development spending.

Subject: Commodities, Economic and financial statistics, Environment, Expenditure, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, Natural resources, Oil, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration

Keywords: CR, democratically-elected government, government, government cash balance, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, government finances, growth strategy, ISCR, Natural resources, Oil, petroleum resource, policy, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

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