Year 8 Economics & Business
Chad
Last updated 3 September 2019
This website has some excellent statistics and information on lots of different countries.
Welfare
(e.g. Unemployment benefits, Pensions)
Chad: retirees living under dire conditions, lament delay in pension payment. (2018, March 12). AfricaNews. Retrieved from https://www.africanews.com/2018/03/12/chadretirees-living-under-dire-conditions-lament-delay-in-pension-payment//
Provision of Infrastructure
(e.g. Roads, Ports, Railways, Communication, Internet access)
Borjas, D. (2017). Improvements to infrastructure in Chad encountering extremism. Retrieved from https://borgenproject.org/infrastructure-in-chad/
International Telecommunications Union. (n.d.). Statistics. Retrieved from https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx
This page gives information in an Excel spreadsheet about how many people in each country have access to telephones and internet technology. You will need to download the spreadsheets to view the data.
World Food Programme. (2018). Chad railway assessment. Retrieved from https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.4+Chad+Railway+Assessment
World Food Programme. (2018). Chad road network. Retrieved from https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.3+Chad+Road+Network
Wages and employee relations
(e.g. Minimum wage, Superannuation, Child labour laws, Safety laws)
Humanium. (n.d.). Children of Chad. Retrieved from https://www.humanium.org/en/chad/
Provision of goods and services
(e.g. Education, Health care)
Borgen Project. (2018). Girl’s education in Chad. Retrieved from https://borgenproject.org/girls-education-in-chad/
Chad. (2019). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from Britannica School database.
You will need to select Level 3 to get more detailed information about Chad.
Chad’s health system struggles to combat malnutrition. (2013, January 24). The New Humanitarian. Retrieved from http://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2013/01/24/chad-s-health-system-struggles-combat-malnutrition
InterNations Go!. (n.d.). Living in Chad. Retrieved from https://www.internations.org/go/moving-to-chad/living
UNICEF. (2015, May 19). Jumpstarting education for Chad’s children [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jerXQG0M2J0
Walsh, F. (2015, July 1). Building a better future for Chad. BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-33333094
Other relevant areas
Pitock, T. (2018, November 15). Starvation: the terrible human cost of Chad’s economic and political meltdown. The Telegraph. Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/starvation-terrible-human-cost-chads-economic-political-meltdown/
Richardson, K. (2017). Why is Chad poor? Retrieved from https://borgenproject.org/why-is-chad-poor/
References
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