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Lomé hosted last Monday, April 4th, a workshop for the elaboration of the gender-sensitive budget for the year 2023. During the session, participants - gender experts, senior officials, technical and financial partners of Togo - aimed to better promote women and gender equality in the budgeting and allocation of state resources.
"Gender budgeting consists in applying the integrated approach of...
Throughout the past month, 1,354 new businesses were registered in Togo, according to data from the Center for Business Formalities (CFE). Compared to February 2022 when the CFE recorded 1,278 new registrations, March’s figure represents a 6% increase; and it is 4% more than in January (1,300).
Looking at the men to women ratio, men officially set up 978 businesses last month, while women...
To shield economic operators (importers and exporters) against fluctuating foreign exchange rates, Orabank Togo recently launched a new product called “forward exchange”’(change à terme). The new offer, which the lender claims to be its “flagship product of the year”, will fix, in advance, the exchange rate in the framework of currency purchase.
In effect, it will be...
From 2019 to the end of 2021, the value of leasing transactions in Togo has soared from CFA600 million to CFA11 billion.
“(...) New leasing operations have swollen to 11 billion in 2021, compared to 0.6 billion in 2019, the year that Togo adopted the law on leasing,” said Sani Yaya, Togo's Minister of Economy and Finance, in his speech at the first National Credit Council (CNC) of this year,...
Last week, during the National Credit Council (CNC), Togo’s minister of finance and economy, Sani Yaya, affirmed that bank lending in the country “strongly increased” in 2021.
Throughout the past year, Yaya said, banks loaned CFA1,425 billion to the economy, up 9% year-on-year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic consequences. It is a “five-year breaking record,” with...
Lomé will host, on 21st April, the conference on political transitions and the fight against terrorism in the Sahel and West African regions. According to the Togolese ministry of affairs which made the announcement, the event will take place at Hôtel 2 Février’s international conference center.
The meeting, which is backed by the UN, was announced last February. It will focus on...
Banks in Togo must deal with five major issues for lending to increase in the country. At least, according to the National Credit Council (CNC), which met on March 31, 2022.
The first challenge, the council said on that day, is that banks should review the cost of credit downwards. "The average lending rate of banks was 7.6% in 2021, after 7.7% in 2020. This rate is still high compared to the...
Talking about the current inflation in the local and international markets, Togo's Minister of Economy and Finance, Sani Yaya, said on March 31, 2022, that things should be back to normal this year. The official spoke during the first meeting of the National Credit Council (CNC),
"In 2022, the general price level should return to its pre-pandemic levels in most countries, given the economic...
Last Thursday, Togo’s High Authority for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption and Related Offences (Haplucia) opened a workshop to technically validate the draft of the country's new strategy to fight corruption and related offenses.
The meeting gathered experts and other actors involved to review and improve the document which assesses, partially, corruption in Togo, before...
French group Bolloré will sell its logistics operations in Africa to the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for € 5.7 billion (nearly 3,740 billion FCFA). The amount was disclosed last Thursday in a statement released by Bolloré Transport & Logistics, at the end of negotiations between the two big companies (negotiations started last year).
"At the end of the exclusive...
The World Bank will disburse $450 million (about CFAF 265 billion) to build resilience in the northern regions of Togo and three other Gulf of Guinea countries (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana). The funding was approved by the Board of Executive Directors of the Washington-based institution last Thursday. It is part of the Social Cohesion Project for the northern regions of the Gulf of...
The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) has recently allocated Togo $100 million (CFA59 billion) financing. Disclosed by the Bretton Woods institution last Thursday, the facility should help the country support its inclusive growth program and tax reforms.
In addition, the disbursement–the second in a series of programmatic development policy support operations–...
The government should soon lower the Tax on Motor Vehicles (TVM) on vehicles used to transport people and goods. The information comes from the recent meeting organized by the ministers of communication, trade, and transport with the media, in the wake of the increase in the price of petroleum products at the pump.
"The TVM will be scaled downwards for the transport of people and goods during...
Between 2015 and 2020, the under-five mortality rate fell from 51% to 35% in northern Togo, according to Integrate Health (an international NGO), which conducted the study "Exploring Maternal and Child Health Services in Northern Togo" in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
One hundred and thirty-seven (137) teachers were excluded this Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from the framework of civil servants in education by the Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Dialogue, Gilbert Bawara (photo), who signed a decree in this regard.
The excluded teachers are now available to the general administration, said the government member who, on his Twitter account, said that...
The fifth Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) meeting is taking place in Lomé and will end tomorrow. Started last Monday, the event is themed: "Resuming coordination and cooperation activities among ANSPs after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic."
The meeting is co-organized by Togo’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the...