IMF Staff Country Reports

Niger: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 16, 2007

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Niger: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper underlies the financial sector developments in Niger. The paper presents an overview of the financial sector of Niger and discusses the recent banking developments. It analyzes the recent trends in key microfinance indicators, and investigates reasons behind Niger’s relatively weak growth performance. It uses a growth accounting framework to assess the contribution to growth by factor inputs and total factor productivity (TFP) during 1963–2003. The paper also presents neoclassical growth model estimates of the role of macroeconomic variables and other factors in determining economic growth in Niger.

Subject: Agricultural sector, Banking, Credit, Economic sectors, Financial services, Microfinance, Money, Production, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Agricultural sector, CR, Credit, Growth performance, Irrigation infrastructure, ISCR, Land productivity, Meager TFP growth, Microfinance, Monetary policy policy management, Niger, Per capita income, Performance in Niger, Physical capital accumulation, Rate of change, Terms-of-trade shock, Total factor productivity, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    85

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2007/014

  • Stock No:

    1NEREA2007002

  • ISBN:

    9781451828733

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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