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      Structural adjustment in Niger: implementations, effects & determining political factors Translated title: Ajustement Structurel au Niger: Applications, Effets et Determinants Politiques

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            This study of adjustment in Niger covers the period from 1983–1994 and addresses the following questions: what account can we give of adjustment and what impacts have adjustment policies had on the country's economic structures? This research is based on the examination of the measures enshrined in the SAP and the ways in which they have been implemented. Particular attention has been paid to the measures' effects on income distribution because, within the context of this analysis, this is considered to be an indicator of the impact of structural adjustment policies on economic structures. On the basis of the data gathered, it seems that the same income structure as before the SAP still exists in Niger, that distortions within the economy have got worse and that the State has resisted any budgetary measures which implied changing spending habits. The example of Niger leads us to conclude that geopolitical factors strongly condition adjustment policies and the results they obtain.

            Cette étude des ajustements au Niger couvre la périod 1983–1994 et vise à répondre aux questions suivantes: quel bilan peut-on tracer en matiere d'ajustement et quel a été I'impact des politiques d'ajustement sur les structures économiques de ce pays? Cette recherche repose sur I'examen des mesures inscrites au PAS et leur mise en application. Une attention particuliere est accordee aux effets de ces mesures sur la repartition des revenus, celle-ci étant considérée dans le cadre de cette analyse un indicateur d'impact des politiques d'ajustement structurel sur les structures economiques. Sur la base des donnees recueillies, il se dégage de I'experience nigérienne que la structure des revenus anterieure au PAS s'est maintenue; que les distorsions au sein de Veconomie se sont accrues et que VEtat a offert une resistance aux mesures budgétaires qui tendaient a modifier la nature et la maniere de depenser. Le cas du Niger nous amene a conclure que les facteurs geopolitiques conditionnent fortement les politiques d'ajustement et les resultats obtenus.

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            CREA
            Review of African Political Economy
            Review of African Political Economy
            0305-6244
            1740-1720
            March 1995
            : 22
            : 63
            : 27-42
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            a Centre d'études sur les régions en développement/Centre for Developing Area Studies , Université McGill/McGill University , Montreal , Canada
            Article
            8704098 Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 22, No. 63, March 1995, pp. 27-42
            10.1080/03056249508704098
            7a13e554-600b-4e5b-9b9d-dac310f34e7e

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            Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

            Endnotes

            1. ‘Political changes in Niger, 1990–1993’ in Political Reform in Francophone Africa , and (eds), Boulder , Colorado , Westview Press (forthcoming).

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