This document presents the systematic
country diagnostic (SCD) for Niger. It identifies the
constraints and opportunities for achieving the twin goals
of ending poverty and improving shared prosperity by 2030 in
a sustainable manner while acknowledging: (a) the need for
selectivity, and (b) the need to identify constraints that
can feasibly be addressed. The objectives of the World Bank
are closely associated with those of the Government of
Niger, which aims in its renaissance program, to achieve
rapid poverty reduction by 2035. To put Niger on a
sustainable path of poverty reduction, a change in
trajectory is needed urgently. Though poverty reduced over
the past decade, much of it can be attributed to favorable
external conditions which no longer exist.