Niger: Request for Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility

IMF Staff Country Reports, March 7, 2005

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Paper focuses on Niger’s Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
Authorities’ reform program covers 2005–07 and emphasizes fiscal consolidation; public and financial sector reforms; and development of social and priority sector strategies.
Purpose: raise the government’s contribution to domestic savings and investment through gradual reductions in fiscal imbalances in 2005–07.
Structural reform agenda aims to improve the supply response of the economy by more efficient allocation of resources and by improving economic governance.

Fiscal consolidation
Public sector reforms
Financial sector reforms
Development of social and priority sector strategies
Measures to improve supply response via:
- More efficient allocation of resources
- Improved economic governance

Main objective: increase government contribution to domestic savings and investment.
Strategy: seek gradual reductions in fiscal imbalances in 2005–07.
Structural focus: enhance the economy’s supply response through governance and resource allocation improvements.

Subjects: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Health, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Revenue administration, Total expenditures
Keywords: CR, government, government plan, government's effort, implementation, inflation, ISCR, low-inflation environment, Niger authorities, Nigerien authorities, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF loan, reform agenda, Total expenditures, West Africa, West African state