Niger: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criterion and for Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
April 29, 2003
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This paper assesses Niger’s Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criterion and for Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC). Program implementation remained on track at end-September 2002. All nine performance criteria and benchmarks were observed, except for a small and temporary accumulation of external payments arrears and a slight overshooting of wage bill benchmark of 2 percent. Corrective measures to strengthen debt management and reinforce the control of the wage bill were taken.
Subject: Arrears, Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, External debt, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration
Keywords: Arrears, Budget planning and preparation, CR, debt-management policy, government, implementation, ISCR, payments arrears, policy, policy implementation, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF loan, reform program, West Africa
Pages:
87
Volume:
2003
DOI:
Issue:
110
Series:
Country Report No. 2003/110
Stock No:
1NEREA0012003
ISBN:
9781451828559
ISSN:
1934-7685
