This poverty assessment aims to inform poverty-focused policymaking in Chad. The report examines recent trends in … poverty, inequality, and other social indicators and identifies key constraints on poverty reduction. Although agriculture … drives macroeconomic growth, exports, and fiscal revenues. Eliminating poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Chad will …

Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census 2000 reports that hundreds … of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only populations that are disproportionately minority, lack … the potential antipoverty benefits of economic development in high-poverty counties, the authors compare their poverty …