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

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 7, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 7, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451828672.002

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### Overview
- 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.

### Reform program for 2005–07 — Key elements
- 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

### Policy objectives and rationale
- 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.

### Subject coverage and keywords (as stated)
- 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

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