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  "title": "Chad: Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 13, 2025",
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  "summary": "This paper presents Chad’s Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility. The 48-month financing package will support the objectives of the authorities’ National Development Plan 2025-2030 by ensuring fiscal sustainability, creating fiscal space for key development projects,",
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      "content": "- The paper presents Chad’s Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).\n- The financing package is a 48-month arrangement designed to support the authorities’ National Development Plan 2025-2030.\n- Core program aims: ensure fiscal sustainability, create fiscal space for key development projects, increase targeted social spending, and improve governance and the business climate.\n- The program is intended to help meet Chad’s balance of payment needs amid acute financing pressures."
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    {
      "heading": "Key challenges and drivers",
      "content": "- Humanitarian, climate, and security shocks are principal national challenges.\n- Additional pressures include:\n  - volatile oil prices;\n  - declining official development assistance;\n  - an unprecedented influx of refugees from Sudan.\n- These factors have:\n  - heightened balance-of-payment needs;\n  - strained public finances;\n  - intensified social and humanitarian pressures."
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      "heading": "Reform priorities and program components",
      "content": "- Social inclusion and governance reforms are emphasized as essential to foster stronger and more balanced economic growth.\n- Specific planned measures highlighted by the authorities:\n  - expand biometric identification;\n  - implement a unified social registry to improve delivery of social protection.\n- Governance reforms in the oil sector are underscored to:\n  - enhance transparency;\n  - enhance accountability."
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      "heading": "Expected outcomes and policy objectives",
      "content": "- Fiscal objectives:\n  - ensure fiscal sustainability;\n  - create fiscal space for priority development projects.\n- Social objectives:\n  - increase targeted social spending;\n  - improve social protection delivery through biometric ID expansion and a unified social registry.\n- Institutional objectives:\n  - improve governance and the business climate, with particular attention to the oil sector."
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      "content": "- Pages: 141\n- Volume: 2025\n- Issue: 236\n- Series: Country Report No. 2025/236\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002\n- ISBN: 9798229019675\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Chad: Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad (Country Report No. 2025/236).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Chad: IMF 48-month ECF Arrangement\n  - Chad: IMF 48-month ECF Arrangement (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Chad: IMF 48-month ECF Arrangement (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002",
    "The paper presents Chad’s Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).",
    "The financing package is a 48-month arrangement designed to support the authorities’ National Development Plan 2025-2030.",
    "Core program aims: ensure fiscal sustainability, create fiscal space for key development projects, increase targeted social spending, and improve governance and the business climate.",
    "The program is intended to help meet Chad’s balance of payment needs amid acute financing pressures.",
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    "These factors have:",
    "Social inclusion and governance reforms are emphasized as essential to foster stronger and more balanced economic growth.",
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    "Pages: 141",
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    "Series: Country Report No. 2025/236",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002",
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    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
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