The three countries covered in this first report, Mali, Chad and Niger, share a number of common characteristics and … natural resource industries, gold for Mali, uranium and oil for Niger, and oil for Chad, which represent the bulk of export …. Hence, Section three discusses the impact of public investment volatility on its quality in Chad, Mali and Niger, and …

Up to February 2020, Chad's economy continued its gradual, but mild recovery, supported by a substantial increase in … dramatically changed Chad's macroeconomic outlook. Chad's economic prospects have not only been clouded, but they remain subject to … considerable downside risks. To mitigate the negative impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Chad, the authorities announced economic …

Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea have some of the lowest rates of secondary school completion in the world for girls. They … progress in Chad, Mali, and Niger has been slow and in some cases inexistent. Child marriage, early childbearing, and low …

too weak and volatile to contribute to poverty reduction on a sustained basis. This systematic country diagnostic (SCD …

country embark on a path of growth and sustainable poverty reduction and to end the cycle of conflict. The analysis was guided …

, and (ii) the many competing 'binding' reasons for poverty in Mali. The objectives of the twin goals are similar for Mali …This document presents the Systematic Country Diagnosis (SCD) for Mali. The SCD was prepared following a consultative … poverty and improving shared prosperity by 2030 while acknowledging (i) the need for selectivity in pro-poor interventions …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect … taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay …

. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

This systematic country diagnosis (SCD) for Chad aims to identify how to achieve the twin goals of ending poverty and … difficulty to do so given the many competing binding reasons for poverty. Selectivity means the identification of principal … opportunities for sustainable poverty reduction in the next 15 years, as well as the identification of binding constraints to …