Togo Threshold - Constraints Analysis

MCC’s evidence-based approach to its investments begins with a mutual understanding of a country’s main growth challenges. During the first phase of the compact or threshold program development process, MCC and the selected partner country, jointly conduct a constraints-to-growth analysis (CA). This analysis identifies the constraints to private investment and entrepreneurship that are most binding to economic growth in the country. The results of this analysis enable the country, together with MCC, to select activities most likely to contribute to sustainable, poverty-reducing growth.

The Constraints Analysis Report for the Togo Threshold Program identified high cost, low quality, and limited availability of information and communications technology (ICT) services, and poor property rights and inefficient land administration as the binding constraints to investment and economic growth in Togo.