The 2021–2025 National Development Plan (NDP), which aimed to lift 35 million people out of poverty and create 21 million full-time jobs by 2025, has joined the long list of the country’s failed economic blueprints. Instead of reducing poverty, the plan has seen an additional 44 million Niger
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