Niger: Selected Issues

February 24, 2017

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Niger: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed April 12, 2025

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses the external stability of Niger. Niger’s real effective exchange rate has been depreciating recently, echoing fluctuations of the euro against the US dollar. A model-based analysis of Niger’s external sector suggests that the real effective exchange rate is broadly in line with macroeconomic fundamentals, which is also consistent with the findings of the 2014 external sector assessment. However, broader competitiveness indicators are worrisome, despite some improvement noted in recent years. The recent depreciation of the naira also suggests some weakening in competitiveness, at least with Nigeria.

Subject: Education, Environment, Gender, Natural disasters, Population and demographics, Population growth, Women

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, CA approach, CA deficit, CA norm, CR, Current account elasticity, East Africa, East Asia, Europe, Fertility rate, Food, Food inflation volatility, ISCR, Middle East, Natural disasters, Niger, North Africa, Population growth, South Asia, Stabilizing CA-norm, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Women

Publication Details

Pages:

48
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2017/060
Stock No:

1NEREA2017002
ISBN:

9781475582888
ISSN:

1934-7685

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