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It frames five central questions on growth performance, acceleration margins, technology for private-sector development, transparent management of natural resource rents, and strengthening disaster risk systems. The executive summary identifies key constraints—weak productivity, low financial inclusion, limited private sector development, low extractive local content, and recurring shocks—and proposes reform pathways to diversify growth, reduce vulnerability, and enable long-term sustainability.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nPathways to sustainable growth in Niger  \nA WORLD BA NK GROUP COUNT RY ECONOMIC MEMORA NDUM  \nPub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \n2  \nPATHWAYS TO A RESILIENT AND SELF-SUSTAINED GROWTH IN NIGER  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nThis Country Economic Memorandum aims to support Niger’s efforts to walk on a path conducive to a resilient and sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate chapter: (i) What were the salient structural characteristics of Niger’s growth performance in the last 20 years? (ii) What are the margins to accelerate growth in the medium to long term?  \n(iii) How can technology be a vehicle for private sector development? (iv) How can the country’s large natural resource endowments be managed in a transparent way that benefits the whole population? (v) How can the current disaster management framework be strengthened to increase resilience to natural shocks?  \nAmidst competing development needs and priorities, three main areas of analysis and policy reforms have been selected. The selection criteria were based on the lessons drawn from other developing countries’experiences, on Niger specificities, and on the potential gains from moving to the frontier. The areas are, i) the use of technology to develop private sector, ii) the development of a well-managed extractive industry, and iii) the establishment of a disaster risk management and finance frameworks. For each area, long-standing bottlenecks that have held back growth performance are identified and specific policy options presented, with a view to create pathways for increasing economic diversification, reducing vulnerability to natural disasters and ultimately boosting long term growth in a sustainable manner.  \nIn particular, five pathways are identified throughout the chapters:  \n• Leverage new technologies to promote agricultural productivity and export orientation;  \n• Foster the development of digital finance;  \n• Promote sound local content policies in the extractive sector;  \n• Manage oil revenues in a transparent and fiscally responsible way;  \n• Strengthen the disaster risk management framework and establish a disaster risk financing strategy  \nIt is worth emphasizing that these pathways are not mutually exclusive. Instead, overall growth performance will be magnified by the implementation of overarching reforms that exploit the significant existing complementarities between each of these areas.  \nPATHWAYS TO A RESILIENT AND SELF-SUSTAINED GROWTH IN NIGER  \n3  \n20 years of low productivity, low income and unresolved problems  \nAlthough Niger’s recent GDP growth performance has been relatively robust (5.2 percent on average from 2000 to 2020), it has not led to the fundamental change in the economy required to achieve a prolonged period of income growth and poverty reduction in the face of challenging demographic prospects. Per capita GDP at current prices stands at only US$ 568 as of 2020, compared to US$ 197 in 2000. This modest change in per capita GDP is also attributable to the weak productivity gain of around 2 percent per annum and a rapid population growth rate of 3.8 percent. With the highest fertility rate in the world (6 .2 children per woman in 2020 according to the most recent national survey), Niger’s economic growth has been too weak to significantly dent poverty. While the poverty rate decreased from above 50 percent to 41.2 percent during this period, the number of people living in extreme poverty (i. e., with less than US$ 1.9 per day) increased, reaching 10 million in 2020.  \nA suitable metaphor to represent this situation might be that of an athlete running on a treadmill: energetic but static. The reason behind this inertia is that the Nigerien economy has fundamentally remained the same as two decades ago: undiversified and poorly specialized. 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