01904cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002419 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451828559 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. 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. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (87 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2003/110 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2003/110/002.2003.issue-110-en.xml IMF e-Library