Boukary Adji

Boukary Adji (* 1939 in Tanout, also Boukari Adji ) is a Nigerien politician and bank managers. He was Prime Minister of his country in 1996.

Life

Boukary Adji began in 1963 with a scholarship to study in Poland. From 1965 he studied economics and finance at the University of Abidjan and later at the Centre d' études et financières bancaires in Paris. He completed his studies with a doctorate in economics. The early 1970s, worked as a director in Adji Nigerien Ministry of Planning and was then in charge of Niger director of the Central Bank of the WAEMU West African Economic and Monetary Union. In 1983 he was appointed as Minister of Finance in the government of Niger under Seyni Kountché. He remained in this office until Kountché death in 1987. Afterwards, he returned as the Deputy Governor for UEMOA central bank in Dakar. After the coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara this Boukary Adji appointed Prime Minister on 30 January 1996. Adji said addressing the problems of rural poverty and the upturn in the economic and financial sectors of the priorities of his government. After the parliamentary elections of 1996, he was replaced as Prime Minister on 21 December 1996 by Amadou Cissé.

Writings

  • Dans les méandres d'une politique transition. Karthala, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86537-857-8.

Honors

  • Grand Cross of the National Order of Niger (2012 )
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