Editing Economy of Niger (section)

==Overall==
[[File:Niger econ 1969.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Economic map of Niger (1969). Peanut cultivation areas in purple, Rice in green, The remainder of agricultural land in orange. The northern limits of seasonal livestock forage is in brown.]]

Niger's economy is based largely on [[subsistence crop]]s, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium deposits. [[Drought]] cycles, [[desertification]], a 3.4% population growth rate and the drop in world demand for uranium have undercut an already marginal economy. Traditional subsistence farming, herding, small trading, and informal markets dominate an economy that generates few formal sector jobs. Between 1988 and 1995 28% to 30% of the total economy of Niger was in the unregulated [[informal sector]], including small and even large scale rural and urban production, transport and services.<ref>C. Maldonado & J. Gasarian. [http://www.oit.org/public/french/employment/ent/papers/niger.htm SECTEUR INFORMEL: FONCTIONS MACRO-ECONOMIQUES ET POLITIQUES GOUVERNEMENTALES: LE CAS DU NIGER] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928125815/http://www.oit.org/public/french/employment/ent/papers/niger.htm |date=2011-09-28 }}. Document de recherche S-INF-1-20. Département du développement des entreprises et des coopératives, Organisation internationale du Travail – OIT (1998).</ref>