Niger

This paper focuses on Niger’s Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Authorities’ reform program for 2005–07 focuses on fiscal consolidation; public and financial sector reforms; and development of social and priority sector strategies. To raise the government’s contribution to domestic savings and investment, gradual reductions in fiscal imbalances will be sought in 2005–07. The structural reform agenda focuses on measures to further improve the supply response of the economy through more efficient allocation of resources and by improving economic governance.Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility;expenditure, external debt, public expenditure, total expenditure, central bank, expenditure management, debt relief, balance of payments, external payments, current account, medium-term expenditure frameworks, external payments arrears, domestic financing, public expenditure management, debt service, budget balance, expenditures, government debt, medium-term expenditure, current account deficit, capital expenditure, expenditure frameworks, debt sustainability, fiscal policy, repayments, public finances, current account balance, external financing, budget expenditures, medium-term expenditure framework, expenditure framework, debt management, budgetary expenditure, foreign debt, external resources, domestic debt, public expenditure adjustment, external debt indicators, expenditure control, social expenditure, public expenditure for health, expenditure policy, loan disbursements, central banks, stock-of-debt operation, public debt, domestic savings, public spending, external public debt, external shocks, budget law, traditional debt relief, payment arrears, investment expenditure, government expenditure, debt-relief, amortization payments, mtef, multiyear expenditure, repurchases, budget system, debt outstanding, debt rescheduling, weak expenditure control, external payment, bilateral creditors, public expenditure reviews, multiyear expenditure framework, total expenditures, debt-service obligations, expenditures on health, budget laws, bilateral donors, general resources account, current account deficits, external debt service, investment expenditures, fiscal gaps, external loans, expenditure process, relief mechanisms, stock of debt, debt unit, traditional debt-relief mechanisms, capital expenditures, debt policy, debt sustainability analysis, public finance, expenditure programs, debt stock, debt situation