IMF Staff Country Reports

Chad: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Publication Date:

January 31, 2007

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty, competitiveness, and fiscal policy challenges posed by the oil revenue outlook. The paper discusses the reforms needed to remove structural factors that constraints the non-oil sector growth, in particular on civil and military services and the microfinance sector. The paper argues that Chad’s current growth potential is seriously limited by low levels of both human and physical capitals and by weak institutions and governance.

Series:

Country Report No. 2007/028

Subject:

Commodities Education Expenditure Labor Oil Oil prices Oil, gas and mining taxes Poverty Taxes Wages

Notes:

Also available online in French.

Frequency:

Biannually