This paper focuses on Togo’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper adopted by the government in March 2008 has allowed Togo once again to benefit from international ...

This Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Togo, discusses that the new Strategy for Boosting Growth and Promoting Employment (SCAPE) presents the overarching reference ...

Last April, Togo started a program called Novissi, or "solidarity" in the local Ewe language, to help folks who'd been pushed into poverty by the pandemic. Over one million people registered.

Poverty is more prevalent in female-headed households (45.7%) than in male-headed ones (45.2%). Women remain more vulnerable, with more limited access to economic opportunities, education, health care ...

Indeed, the Togo Poverty and Gender Assessment report indicates that while rural areas remain the most poverty-stricken regions in Togo, with 58.7% of the population living in poverty, urban areas are ...

The pandemic has been tough for Eric Dossekpli. The 49-year-old farmer from Anfoin Avele, a town in the west African country of Togo, had trouble selling his peanuts, black-eyed peas, maize and ...

Located in the Gulf of Guinea, Togo is one of the poorest countries in the world with a poverty rate of 45.50%. The agricultural sector in Togo, which contributes more than 40% of the country’s ...

President’s former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.

LONDON, Dec 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A U.S.-based nonprofit that is using algorithms to identify people living in extreme poverty by analysing their mobile phone habits has made direct ...

On a recent mission trip to his homeland of Togo, it took less than a minute for Adolph Dagan to remember the poverty and plight he experienced as a child. There are painful memories he would like ...

Alohou Papa stands in the middle of the bustling market in Togoville and blows hard on a bright red whistle to catch everyone's attention. Every Saturday on the northern shore of Lake Togo, some ...