Abstract

The region of Savanes remains the poorest region of Togo, despite several years of colonial and post-colonial public interventions. The persistence of this multidimensional poverty has led to various questions about the real determinants that seem to limit the results of these various interventions. A review of the available literature and statistical datas, the interviewsl and focus group conducted in 2017 provided key information’s that was triangulated. Subsequent analyzes and results obtained clearly showed that the question of poverty in this region is the result of two structural determinants.

     The first determinant was the theoretical approach, the theory of growth poles, which has supported public interventions in this region. This approach has made the region of Savanes, a rural or peripheral region without large production processing unit and structurally dependent for its development of large urban centers. The second structural determinant is the mutation of local actors in a cycle of new dependencies on non-state actors for solving their domestic problems and development.