translate English to French: Poverty reduction had also been made the overarching goal of his Government, with the result that the national poverty headcount ratio had fallen by 9 percentage points between 1991 and 2000.
Le Gouvernement a fait de la réduction de la pauvreté un objectif intersectoriel qui a abouti à réduire de neuf points de pourcentage le nombre des pauvres entre 1991 et 2000.