Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth

Niger’s Vision 2035 acknowledges the country has little choice but to create ‘a competitive anddiversified economy.’ Economic diversification is a cornerstone component of the Economic Orientation Document (EOD) 2016-19 and the PDES 2017-21. The EO...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION TRADE POLICY TRADE FACILITATION REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE LOGISTICS EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS INVESTMENT CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REGULATION GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN BOVINE EXPORTS ONION EXPORTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/284331576782136230/Niger-Leveraging-Export-Diversification-to-Foster-Growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33069

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spelling	okr-10986-330692021-05-25T09:31:08Z Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth World Bank EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION TRADE POLICY TRADE FACILITATION REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE LOGISTICS EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS INVESTMENT CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REGULATION GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN BOVINE EXPORTS ONION EXPORTS Niger’s Vision 2035 acknowledges the country has little choice but to create ‘a competitive anddiversified economy.’ Economic diversification is a cornerstone component of the Economic Orientation Document (EOD) 2016-19 and the PDES 2017-21. The EOD defines Niger’s economic diversification as moving exports away from natural resources and increasing the value-added component of exports as the foundation for its agro-based industrialization and employment creation policies. Hence, an exports diversification strategy is akin to the country’s economic diversification and, not surprisingly, the PDES contains several axes of policy interventions supporting it. However, Niger faces serious structural challenges to diversify into new productive activities. The country is landlocked, exporting costs are high and, given multiple infrastructure and logistics gaps, access to markets is difficult beyond neighboring regional markets. Rapid population growth and low human capital turns into a low skilled population. Volatile economic growth, reliant on a few commodity exports that closely follow the vagaries of weather and boom and busts of international prices, makes hardly obtained poverty gains vulnerable. 2019-12-23T17:46:59Z 2019-12-23T17:46:59Z 2017-12-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/284331576782136230/Niger-Leveraging-Export-Diversification-to-Foster-Growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33069 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows Study Africa Niger
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description	Niger’s Vision 2035 acknowledges the country has little choice but to create ‘a competitive anddiversified economy.’ Economic diversification is a cornerstone component of the Economic Orientation Document (EOD) 2016-19 and the PDES 2017-21. The EOD defines Niger’s economic diversification as moving exports away from natural resources and increasing the value-added component of exports as the foundation for its agro-based industrialization and employment creation policies. Hence, an exports diversification strategy is akin to the country’s economic diversification and, not surprisingly, the PDES contains several axes of policy interventions supporting it. However, Niger faces serious structural challenges to diversify into new productive activities. The country is landlocked, exporting costs are high and, given multiple infrastructure and logistics gaps, access to markets is difficult beyond neighboring regional markets. Rapid population growth and low human capital turns into a low skilled population. Volatile economic growth, reliant on a few commodity exports that closely follow the vagaries of weather and boom and busts of international prices, makes hardly obtained poverty gains vulnerable.
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title	Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth
title_short	Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth
title_full	Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth
title_fullStr	Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth
title_full_unstemmed	Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth
title_sort	niger : leveraging export diversification to foster growth
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
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Niger : Leveraging Export Diversification to Foster Growth

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